And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

And when Jehovah raised up judges for them, Jehovah was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for Jehovah was moved to pity before their groaning because of those oppressing and thrusting at them.

Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them; and in the time of their trouble, when they cried out to You, You heard from Heaven; and according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

But after they had rest, they returned to doing evil before You. Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from Heaven; and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

For He has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried out to Him, He heard.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power preserve alive the children of death;

to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the children of death,

In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul.

And I will also judge the nation whom they serve; and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

But in the fourth generation they shall return here; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates;

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.

since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your seed I give all these lands. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father.

And Jehovah appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake.

And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have persevered with God and with men, and have prevailed.

And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and called out, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here am I.

I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will arise to bring you back. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites; to give it to his seed. You have performed Your words, for You are just.

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea.

O seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His elect.

He remembers His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded, to a thousand generations,

and confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel as a perpetual covenant,

when they were but a few men in number, yea very few, and sojourned in it.

and remembered His covenant toward them, and was moved to compassion according to the abundance of His mercies.

to perform mercy with our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

the oath which He swore to our father Abraham: