New Revised Standard Version
we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors; the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

Contemporary English Version
We called out for help to you, the LORD God of our ancestors. You heard our cries; you knew we were in trouble and abused.

New American Bible
we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our cry and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:

And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:

we cried

Exodus 2:23-25 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . .

Exodus 3:1-4:31 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. . . .

Exodus 6:5 I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 103:1,2 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. . . .

Psalm 116:1-4 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. . . .

Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and prepare it, the Lord is his name.

Ephesians 3:20,21 Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us: . . .

looked

Exodus 4:31 And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.

1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.

2 Samuel 16:12 Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.

Psalm 102:19,20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. . . .

Psalm 119:132 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the judgment of them that love thy name.