"And He said, The oppression of My people who are in Mizraim is verily manifest before Me, and heard before Me is their cry on account of them who hold them in bondage; for their affliction is known before Me."
The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus (3:7) piles up three verbs where the Hebrew uses only two. Manifest. Heard. Known. The Holy One wants Moses — and every reader of the Targum after him — to understand that nothing about the slavery has escaped Him.
This is a crucial theology against the charge that God was absent during the bondage. The Targum's God has been watching every whip. Hearing every cry. Cataloging every overseer's cruelty. He has not been silent because He has been uninterested. He has been silent because the clock of the covenant (see Genesis 15:13) has not yet reached the appointed hour.
And notice the precise phrase: the oppression of My people. Not "the oppression of a people." My people. Before the Torah is given, before the priesthood is established, before the Tabernacle is built — the Holy One is already claiming Israel as His. The relationship is not founded on their obedience. It is founded on His possession.
The three verbs — manifest, heard, known — correspond, the sages later taught, to the three dimensions of divine knowledge: seen (the external pain), heard (the vocalized cry), and known (the internal, unvoiced suffering). God registers all three. The public wound, the public prayer, and the private agony no one else can access.
Beloved, your God has more than one instrument for listening. Even the pain you have never once said out loud has already been heard.