Exodus 5:23
Good News Translation
Ever since I went to the king to speak for you, he has treated them cruelly. And you have done nothing to help them!"

New Revised Standard Version
Since I first came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has mistreated this people, and you have done nothing at all to deliver your people.”

Contemporary English Version
Ever since you told me to speak to the king, he has caused nothing but trouble for these people. And you haven't done a thing to help."

New American Bible
From the time I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has treated this people badly, and you have done nothing to rescue your people.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.

in thy name

Psalm 118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 11:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who seek thy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and thou shalt not die in our hands.

John 5:43 I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

neither hast thou delivered.

Isaiah 26:17,18 As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord. . . .

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

Hebrews 10:36,37 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. . . .

Context
The Cry of the Israelites
22And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me? 23For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.
Cross References
Exodus 3:8
And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Exodus 6:1
And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.

Exodus 5:22
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