Quotes about Empathy
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
— Isaiah 1:17
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
— Isaiah 14:10
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
— Isaiah 53:4
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
— Isaiah 57:16
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
— Isaiah 58:7
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
— Isaiah 58:10
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
— Jeremiah 9:1
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 22:16
I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
— Ezekiel 3:15
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
— Ezekiel 34:4
You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
— Obadiah 1:13
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
— Zechariah 7:9