925 verses about Compassion

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.”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Don’t be furious, Yahweh, and don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.