I know their sorrows

Daily Light Devotions - August 24 - Morning

I know their sorrows.

Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 1 

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 2 

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 3 

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases." 4

Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. 5 

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. Jesus wept. 6 

For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. 7 

that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die, 8 

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. 9 

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. 10 

For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye: 11 

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. 12 

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1. Exo 3:7; 

2. Isa 53:3; 

3. Heb 4:15; 

4. Matt 8:17; 

5. John 4:6; 

6. John 11:33,35; 

7. Heb 2:18; 

8. Psa 102:19,20; 

9. Job 23:10; 

10. Psa 142.3; 

11. Zech 2:8; 

12. Isa 63:9