Quotes About Compassion

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.

The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

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

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.