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Psalm 106:46
He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
46He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
47Save us, LORD, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the LORD!
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The captors show pity because God moves them, yet the next verse still asks for rescue, leaving mercy and unfinished suffering in the same scene.
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Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.Both passages show God's power over the hearts of people who hold power over others.
Daniel 1:9Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.Both passages credit God with causing people under another's authority to receive compassion.
Exodus 3:21I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.Both passages describe God causing his people to receive favorable treatment from those who held them captive.
Jeremiah 15:11The LORD said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the …Both passages attribute a change in an enemy's conduct toward the afflicted to the LORD.
1 Kings 8:50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before …Solomon asks God to grant captives compassion from their captors; the psalm recounts God doing that.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, …Both passages connect God's mercy with his people finding compassion among those who carried them captive.
Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of …Both passages describe God moving people who hold authority, whether captors showing pity or Cyrus issuing a proclamation.
Esther 2:9The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be …Both passages describe receiving kindness from someone with power, though Esther's verse does not name God as its source.
Jeremiah 42:12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.Both passages describe God's mercy working through another person's merciful treatment of his people.
Ezra 9:9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive …Both passages describe God's kindness reaching his people through those in power while they remain in bondage.
Exodus 2:6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Both texts describe compassion toward the vulnerable, though Exodus concerns a child rather than a captive people.
Exodus 11:3The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, …Both passages credit the LORD with changing how another people regard his own people.
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Receiving kindness does not mean your need for rescue has ended. Israel still cried for deliverance after God moved their captors to pity.
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