Quotes About Compassion

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.

Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

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

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ëNo Compassion.í I will say to those called ëNot My People,í ëYou are My people,í and they will say, ëYou are my God.í”

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.

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.

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

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”