Exodus 1v12-14

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to find hope when we are afflicted. 

12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. 
They started to dread the children of Israel. 
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 
14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, 
and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.