For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
Cross References
Psalm 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Psalm 35:10All my bones will exclaim, "Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?"
Psalm 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Psalm 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
Psalm 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Treasury of Scripture
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
he remembered
2 Samuel 17:1,2
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: …
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 18:33-35
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …
persecuted
Psalm 10:2,14
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined…
Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Job 19:2,3,21,22
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? …
slay
Psalm 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm 69:20-29
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none…
2 Samuel 16:11,12
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him…
