2Ch 33:12-13, 34:27, Psa 34:18, 51:17, 138:6, Isa 66:1-2, Eze 9:4, 16:63 | ESV | STEP | And when he was in distress , he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers .

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God ^aand humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and ^bGod was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. ^cThen Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

2 Chronicles 34:27

27 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

Psalms 34:18

18 The Lord is near to ^dthe brokenhearted
and saves ^ethe crushed in spirit.

Psalms 51:17

17 The sacrifices of God are ^fa broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalms 138:6

6 ^gFor though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,
but the haughty he knows from afar.

Isaiah 66:1-2

The Humble and Contrite in Spirit

1 ^hThus says the Lord:
ⁱ“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
2 ^jAll these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,

declares the Lord.
^kBut this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 9:4

4 And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and ^lput a mark on the foreheads of the men who ^msigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Ezekiel 16:63

63 that you may remember and be confounded, and ⁿnever open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”