TSK · Exodus 1:14

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.

It said:“I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

So here is what the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, says:“My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.