17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Exile and Wandering
• Prayer
• Suffering and Perseverance

• Egypt → World / Spiritual Bondage

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Chr 17:9 — Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as
• 1Sam 9:16 — To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistin
• 1Sam 12:8 — When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
• Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Acts 7:34 — 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.
• Acts 12:23 — And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Deut 24:15 — At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Deut 26:6 — And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
• Deut 26:7 — And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
• Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
• Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
• Exod 3:7 — And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Exod 3:7 — And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Exod 3:9 — Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
• Exod 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a
• Exod 4:19 — And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
• Exod 4:19 — And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
• Exod 7:7 — And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• Exod 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brou
• Exod 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
• Ezek 16:4 — And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
• Gen 4:10 — And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
• Gen 16:11 — And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
• Gen 16:11 — And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
• Gen 18:20 — And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
• Isa 19:20 — And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one,
• Isa 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
• Jas 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth
• Job 34:28 — So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
• Job 35:9 — By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
• Judg 10:11 — And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
• Lam 3:32 — But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
• Matt 2:19 — But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
• Neh 9:9 — And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
• Num 20:16 — And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
• Ps 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 18:6 — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Ps 18:6 — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Ps 79:11 — Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;