925 verses about Compassion

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, besides his own who are gathered.”