And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

God heard.

Exodus 6:5 I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.

Judges 2:18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

Nehemiah 9:27,28 And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of their enemies. . . .

Psalm 22:5,24 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. . . .

Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

Psalm 102:20 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

Psalm 138:3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.

remembered.

Genesis 15:14-18 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. . . .

Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 18:18 Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?

Genesis 26:3,24 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father. . . .

Genesis 28:12-14 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it. . . .

Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Genesis 46:2-4 He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am. . . .

Nehemiah 9:8,9 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just. . . .

Psalm 105:6-13,42 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. . . .

Psalm 106:45 And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Luke 1:72,73 To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament. . . .