出埃及记 5:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

摩西回到耶和華那裡，說：“主啊！你為甚麼苦待這人民呢？為甚麼差派我呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
摩 西 回 到 耶 和 华 那 里 ， 说 ： 主 阿 ， 你 为 甚 麽 苦 待 这 百 姓 呢 ？ 为 甚 麽 打 发 我 去 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Then the Israelite foremen went to the king and complained, "Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? ¹⁶ You give us no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people's fault." ¹⁷ The king answered, "You are lazy! You don't want to work! That is why you ask to leave here and make sacrifices to the Lord . ¹⁸ Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw, but you must make just as many bricks as you did before." ¹⁹ The Israelite foremen knew they were in trouble, because the king had told them, "You must make just as many bricks each day as you did before." ²⁰ As they were leaving the meeting with the king, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them. ²¹ So they said to Moses and Aaron, "May the Lord punish you. You caused the king and his officers to hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us." ²² Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Lord, why have you brought this trouble on your people? Is this why you sent me here? ²³ I went to the king and said what you told me to say, but ever since that time he has made the people suffer. And you have done nothing to save them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

returned: Exodus 17:4, 1 Samuel 30:6, Psalms 73:25, Jeremiah 12:1

why is it: Numbers 11:14, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, 1 Kings 19:10, Jeremiah 20:7, Habakkuk 2:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:11 - wherefore Joshua 7:7 - wherefore Isaiah 26:18 - we have not 2 Corinthians 7:8 - though I did

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:6
When Seth was 105 years old, he had a son named Enosh.

Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.

Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.

Genesis 24:40
But he said, ‘I serve the Lord , who will send his angel with you and will help you. You will get a wife for my son from my family and my father's people.

Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors Abraham and Isaac served our God, and like a shepherd God has led me all my life.

Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, "I will cause food to fall like rain from the sky for all of you. Every day the people must go out and gather what they need for that day. I want to see if the people will do what I teach them.

Leviticus 26:12
I will walk with you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Deuteronomy 5:33
Live the way the Lord your God has commanded you so that you may live and have what is good and have a long life in the land you will take.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses returned unto the Lord,.... Bishop Patrick thinks, that this not only intimates that the Lord had appeared to Moses since he came into Egypt, but that there was some settled place where he appeared, and where he might resort to him on all occasions, and therefore is said to return to him; though it may signify no more, than that, instead of staying to give an answer to the officers, which he might be at a loss to do, he went to God, to the throne of grace, by prayer, as he was wont to do in cases of difficulty:

and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? or afflicted them, and suffered them to be thus afflicted; which to ascribe to God was right, whatever were the means or instruments; for all afflictions are of him, and who has always wise reasons for what he does, as he now had; to try the faith and patience of his people; to make the Egyptians more odious to them, and so take them off from following their manners, customs, rites, and superstitions, and make them more desirous of departing from thence to the land of Canaan, nor seek a return to Egypt again; and that his vengeance on the Egyptians for such cruelty and inhumanity might appear the more just, and his power might be seen in the plagues he inflicted on them, and in the deliverance of his people when reduced to the utmost extremity:

why is it that thou hast sent me? he seems to wish he had never been sent, and could be glad to be recalled, something of the same disposition still remaining in him as when first called; since no end was answered by his mission, no deliverance wrought, yea, the people were more afflicted and oppressed than before; and therefore he was at a loss how to account for it that he should be sent at all, seeing nothing came of it to the good of the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:22. And Moses returned unto the Lord — This may imply, either that there was a particular place into which Moses ordinarily went to commune with Jehovah; or it may mean that kind of turning of heart and affection to God, which every pious mind feels itself disposed to practise in any time or place. The old adage will apply here: "A praying heart never lacks a praying place."

Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? — It is certain that in this address Moses uses great plainness of speech. Whether the offspring of a testy impatience and undue familiarity, or of strong faith which gave him more than ordinary access to the throne of his gracious Sovereign, it would be difficult to say. The latter appears to be the most probable, as we do not find, from the succeeding chapter, that God was displeased with his freedom; we may therefore suppose that it was kept within due bounds, and that the principles and motives were all pure and good. However, it should be noted, that such freedom of speech with the Most High should never be used but on very special occasions, and then only by his extraordinary messengers.