Quotes about Compassion
Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
— Jeremiah 38:11
And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’
— Jeremiah 42:12
And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
— Jeremiah 52:32
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
— Lamentations 2:21
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
— Lamentations 3:32
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
— Lamentations 3:33
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
— Lamentations 3:34
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
— Lamentations 4:3
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:10
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
— Ezekiel 11:19
No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.
— Ezekiel 16:5
So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.
— Ezekiel 16:54