And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Ver. 5. I have also heard the groaning.] He heareth "the young ravens that cry" Psa 147:9 unto him but by implication only, and with a hoarse voice unfit to move pity (whence also they have their name in the Hebrew - ערב). How much more his own covenanters!