Midras Keluaran 3:9: Shemot Rabbah, Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Midrash Tehillim & Sifrei Devarim

וְעַתָּ֕ה הִנֵּ֛ה צַעֲקַ֥ת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בָּ֣אָה אֵלָ֑י וְגַם־רָאִ֙יתִי֙ אֶת־הַלַּ֔חַץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִצְרַ֖יִם לֹחֲצִ֥ים אֹתָֽם׃

Sekarang, sesungguhnya seruan orang Israel telah sampai kepada-Ku, dan Aku juga telah melihat bagaimana orang Mesir menindas mereka.

Shemot Rabbah

“I have come down to deliver them from the hand of Egypt and to take them up from that land to a good and expansive land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Emorites and the Perizzites and the Hivvites and the Yevusites” (Exodus 3:8).
“I have come down to deliver them from the hand of Egypt…” – the Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: ‘I told their patriarch Jacob: “I will go down with you into Egypt and I will take you up…” (Genesis 46:4). Now I have come down here to take his descendants up, as I said to Jacob their patriarch. To where will I take them up? To the place from which I took them, to the land about which I took an oath to their ancestors.’ That is what is written: “And to take them up from that land…”
“And now, behold, the outcry of the children of Israel has come to Me and I have also seen the oppression that the Egyptians are oppressing them” (Exodus 3:9).
“And now, behold, the outcry of the children of Israel has come to Me,” – until now, their outcry has not come to Me, as the end that I said to Abraham had not yet arrived: “And [they] will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years” (Genesis 15:13).
“Go now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and take My people the children of Israel out of Egypt” (Exodus 3:10).
“Go [lekha] now, and I will send you to Pharaoh” – Rabbi Elazar said: Lekha [ending with the letter heh] is emphatic, saying that if you do not deliver them there is no one else to deliver them.11The midrash is reading lekha, go, as a conjunction of lekh ata, go you.
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Midrash Tanchuma Buber

(Exod. 3:9:) BUT NOW LOOK, THE CRY OF ISRAEL'S CHILDREN HAS COME UNTO ME, AND I HAVE ALSO SEEN THE OPPRESSION < WITH WHICH THE EGYPTIANS OPPRESS THEM >. <This verse > teaches that the Holy One looked at the Egyptians, at how they had enslaved Israel. It is so stated (ibid.): LOOK, THE CRY OF ISRAEL'S CHILDREN HAS COME UNTO ME, AND I HAVE ALSO SEEN THE OPPRESSION…. I, as it were, am with them. <As for THE OPPRESSION > WITH WHICH THE EGYPTIANS OPPRESS THEM, (according to vs. 8) I HAVE COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM <OUT OF THE HAND OF THE EGYPTIANS >.
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Shemot Rabbah

“Behold, I am sending an angel” (Exodus 23:20) – the Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: The one who protected the patriarchs will protect the descendants. Likewise, you find with Abraham, when he blessed his son Isaac, he said to him: “The Lord, God of the heavens…He will send His angel before you” (Genesis 24:7). Jacob our patriarch, what did he say to his children? “The angel who redeems me [from all evil]” (Genesis 48:16). He said to them: ‘He redeemed me from Esau, he redeemed me from Laban, he fed me and supported me during the years of famine.’ The Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: ‘Now, too, the one who protected the patriarchs will protect the descendants, as it is stated: “Behold, I am [sending an angel].”’
Every place that an angel is seen, the Divine Presence is seen, as it is stated: “An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire” (Exodus 3:2), and immediately, “God called to him” (Exodus 3:4). Moreover, when Israel cries out before Him, salvation will come to them. So it was at the bush, as it is stated: “Now, behold, the outcry of the children of Israel has come to Me” (Exodus 3:9). Likewise with Gideon, “An angel [of the Lord] came.… The angel of the Lord appeared to him…” (Judges 6:11–12).17Following this, in verse 13, Gideon complains to the angel about Israel’s oppression at the hands of Midian. The midrash will now cite the angel’s response to Gideon. “He said: Go with this strength of yours and save Israel” (Judges 6:14). Likewise, in the future, when he will reveal himself, redemption will come to Israel, as it is stated: “Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear a way before Me” (Malachi 3:1).
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