Genesis 29:32-33
29:32 So Leah became pregnant
and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,
for she said, “The
Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition.
Surely my husband will love me now.”
29:33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
Exodus 2:24-25
2:24 God heard their groaning,
God remembered
his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
2:25 God saw
the Israelites, and God understood….
Exodus 3:7-8
3:7 The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
3:8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:1
3:1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
Exodus 1:11
1:11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Psalms 25:18
25:18 See my pain and suffering!
Forgive all my sins!