God continues: and now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. The repetition from verse 7 is deliberate — God is not simply informing Moses of facts; He is opening the case before the one He is about to commission. The double testimony of the people's cry and the oppressor's conduct establishes the moral grounds for the intervention that follows. In Hebrew legal culture, a case required witnesses and evidence; God is presenting both, declaring that what He is about to do is just. Psalm 10:17–18 says the Lord hears the desire of the afflicted, He encourages them and listens to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed. Exodus 3:9 is the moment that psalm describes — the cry has reached God's ears, the oppression has been seen, and what follows is God's answer to what He cannot in justice leave unanswered.

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