Pity: sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed or unhappy.
Merriam-Webster
For too long, I’ve born the consequences of the foolish decisions of a middle-aged woman. Frustrated, I complained again.
Mollie, she doesn’t know her right hand from her left.
My Husband
He was right. She didn’t, and what did God do with a great city of evildoers who did not know their right from their left?
And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left …
Jonah 4:11 (ESV)
Unlike me, instead of lamenting the Ninevites’ lack of knowledge and listing the reasons why they should know better, God had pity. He took action to correct the situation. I may not be the one to correct, but I can have pity.
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