and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

使他们因做苦工觉得命苦；无论是和泥，是做砖，是做田间各样的工，在一切的工上都严严地待他们。

使他们因苦工而生活痛苦；无论是和泥，是做砖，是做田间各样的工，一切的工埃及人都严厉地对待他们。

使他们因苦工而生活痛苦；无论是和泥，是做砖，是做田间各样的工，一切的工埃及人都严厉地对待他们。

强迫他们和泥造砖，并做田间一切的苦工，使他们痛苦不堪。

埃及人使他们因作苦工而觉得命苦，他们要和泥、做砖、作田间各样的工；这一切苦工，埃及人都严严地驱使以色列人去作。

使他們因做苦工覺得命苦；無論是和泥，是做磚，是做田間各樣的工，在一切的工上都嚴嚴地待他們。

使他們因苦工而生活痛苦；無論是和泥，是做磚，是做田間各樣的工，一切的工埃及人都嚴厲地對待他們。

使他們因苦工而生活痛苦；無論是和泥，是做磚，是做田間各樣的工，一切的工埃及人都嚴厲地對待他們。

強迫他們和泥造磚，並做田間一切的苦工，使他們痛苦不堪。

埃及人使他們因作苦工而覺得命苦，他們要和泥、做磚、作田間各樣的工；這一切苦工，埃及人都嚴嚴地驅使以色列人去作。

用很難作的苦工：像和灰泥、作磚，作田間各樣的工：就是埃及人嚴嚴叫他們去作的各樣苦工，使他們的生活逕是苦味。

使之作苦、以勞其生、和泥、陶瓦、力田、所服之役、無不以嚴、○

畀以重任、艱苦其身、陶瓦、擣土、力田、所服之役、無不以嚴。○

使之辛勞工作、合土陶瓦、力田劬勞、艱苦其生、凡所使之役、無不以嚴、○

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

The people suffered because of their hard labor. The slave drivers forced them to work with bricks and mud. And they made them do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians didn’t show them any pity at all. They made them work very hard.

They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage— in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve,[ was] with rigour.

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

“ I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

“ Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

“ You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry,‘ Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people,“ Thus says Pharaoh,‘ I will not give you straw.Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.The taskmasters were urgent, saying,“ Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked,“ Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh,“ Why do you treat your servants like this?No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us,‘ Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”But he said,“ You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say,‘ Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said,“ You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;and they said to them,“ The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you,‘ Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”

She said to them,“ Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

“ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord,“ seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord,“ and continually all the day my name is despised.

Then the Lord said to Abram,“ Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.

You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves