🔥WEB · Exodus 5:22
What does Exodus 5:22 mean?
"Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?"
— Exodus 5:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came out from Pharaoh:
and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; and you have not rescued your people at all.”
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