'Pitied' in the Bible

"So he rose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him tenderly.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.