¹⁰ Then the slave drivers^(A) and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

²¹ and they said, “May the Lord look on you and judge^(A) you! You have made us obnoxious^(B) to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword^(C) in their hand to kill us.”^(D)

²⁰ But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace,^(A) out of Egypt,^(B) to be the people of his inheritance,^(C) as you now are.

¹⁵ He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness,^(A) that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes^(B) and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.^(C)

²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(A) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(B)

⁴ the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt,^(A) out of the iron-smelting furnace.^(B)’ I said, ‘Obey^(C) me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people,^(D) and I will be your God.