Compaixão
A compaixão é o coração de Deus em ação. Ele é compassivo e misericordioso, tardio em irar-se e grande em amor. Somos chamados a refletir essa compaixão no mundo.
He waters the mountains from his chambers:
The earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly;
From the multitude of them that work iniquity;
It is the mercies of the Lord,
That he has not failed me,
Because his compassions are not exhausted.
Pity us, O Lord,
Early every month:
For we are not brought to an end,
Because his compassions are not exhausted.
They are new every morning:
Great is thy faithfulness.
Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.
Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me.
And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that stay themselves upon him.
Who is a God like thee, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.
Thus saith the Lord Almighty;
Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother: and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.