Ramban on Shemos 3:9

English: AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IS COME UNTO ME. Even though He has already said, and I have heard their cry , 176 Verse 7. He says again that it has come unto Me , thus stating that “their cry has come to the Throne of My Glory, and I will no longer pardon 177 According to another reading: “permit Pharaoh to enslave.” Pharaoh, for the Egyptians are oppressing them exceedingly.” It is similar in sense to the expression, a rage which hath reached up unto heaven . 178 II Chronicles 28:9. By way of the Truth, [the mystic lore of the Cabala], the cry of the children of Israel is a reference to Knesseth Yisrael , 179 “The Congregation of Israel.” Here understood in a Cabalistic sense, an allusion to the attribute of justice. similar to the verse, according to the cry of it which is come unto Me . 180 Genesis 18:21. I have alluded to it there. The meaning of the verse, moreover I have seen the oppression , is that He will punish Pharaoh and his people because by oppressing Israel so exceedingly, they perpetrated more than had been decreed against them, as I have explained in Seder Lech Lecha . 181 Ibid. , 15:13 (Vol. I, pp. 203-8).