Compassion

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said, “Do not weep.”

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

But when a Samaritan on a journey came upon him, he looked at him and had compassion.

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.