“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;”
God says: I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. Three verbs: seen, heard, concerned. The divine response to human suffering in Exodus is not passive or distant; it is attentive, personal, and about to become active. The suffering God names here — misery, crying out, slave drivers — is the same suffering the narrator described in Exodus 1 and 2. God is not offering a new diagnosis; He is confirming that He has registered exactly what the reader has been shown. This matters: the God of Scripture is not uninformed about the pain of His people. He has seen it. He has heard it. The Hebrew word for concerned — yadati, I know — is the same absolute construction that ended chapter 2: God knows. Luke 18:7 asks: will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night? Exodus 3:7 is the answer.
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