Quotes About Compassion

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.

But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

When men are brought low and you say, ëLift them up!í then He will save the lowly.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widowís ox in pledge.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.