Acts 7:34 “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard…”

Acts 7:34

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

World English Bible

I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’

American Standard Version

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue seene, I haue seene the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt, and I haue heard their groning, and am come downe to deliuer them: and nowe come, and I will sende thee into Egypt.

Darby Translation

I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation

seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that [is] in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

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Cross references

“I have seen”

Exodus 4:31 Nehemiah 9:9 Psalm 106:44 Exodus 2:23–25 Judges 2:18 Exodus 3:7

Exodus 4:31 · BSB

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Nehemiah 9:9 · BSB

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Psalm 106:44 · BSB

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Exodus 2:23–25 · BSB

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Judges 2:18 · BSB

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those…

Exodus 3:7 · BSB

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

“and am”

John 6:38 Genesis 18:21 Numbers 11:17 Psalm 144:5 Isaiah 64:1 John 3:13

John 6:38 · BSB

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

Genesis 18:21 · BSB

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Numbers 11:17 · BSB

And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourse…

Psalm 144:5 · BSB

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Isaiah 64:1 · BSB

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

John 3:13 · BSB

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

“And now”

Exodus 3:14 Hosea 12:13 Psalm 105:26 Micah 6:4 Exodus 3:10

Exodus 3:14 · BSB

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Hosea 12:13 · BSB

But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Psalm 105:26 · BSB

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Micah 6:4 · BSB

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

Exodus 3:10 · BSB

Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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