Blessed are you because you had compassion on two only children. Be merciful to them, O Master, and keep them safe; bring their lives to fulfillment in happiness and mercy.”

Wisdom also, when the nations in wicked agreement had been put to confusion, recognized the righteous man and preserved him blameless before God and kept him strong in the face of his compassion for his child.

For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of distress.

The compassion of humans is for their neighbors, but the compassion of the Lord is for every living thing. He rebukes and trains and teaches them and turns them back, as a shepherd his flock.

He has compassion on those who accept his discipline and who are eager for his decrees.

But these also were men of compassion whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;

he made to rest on the head of Jacob; he acknowledged him with his blessings and gave him his inheritance; he divided his portions and distributed them among twelve tribes.

Moses

From his descendants the Lord brought forth a man of compassion who found favor in the sight of all

And in the days of Moses he showed compassion, he and Caleb son of Jephunneh: they opposed the congregation, restrained the people from sin, and stilled their wicked grumbling.

God’s Promise Recalled

“Yet you have dealt with us, O Lord our God, in all your kindness and in all your great compassion,

So the congregation assembled to be ready for battle and to pray and ask for mercy and compassion.

“The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song that bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’ ”

for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, long-suffering, and very merciful, and you relent at human suffering. O Lord, according to your great goodness you have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you, and in the multitude of your mercies you have appointed repentance for sinners, so that they may be saved.

The Most High shall be revealed on the seat of judgment, and compassion shall pass away, and patience shall be withdrawn.

and abundant in compassion because he makes his compassions abound more and more to those now living and to those who are gone and to those yet to come—

and have compassion on your old age by honoring my humane advice?

When they saw that he was so courageous in the face of the afflictions and that he had not been changed by their compassion, the guards brought him to the fire.

Therefore take pity on yourselves. Even I, your enemy, have compassion for your youth and handsome appearance.

Let us take pity on our youth and have compassion on our mother’s age,

Even though the tyrant had been vehemently reproached by the brothers, he felt strong compassion for this child when he saw that he was already in fetters. He summoned him to come nearer and tried to persuade him, saying,

When he had thus appealed to him, he sent for the boy’s mother to show compassion on her who had been bereaved of so many sons and to influence her to persuade the surviving son to obey and save himself.