2Ki 22:19, Psa 34:18, 51:17, Isa 57:15, 66:2, Eze 9:4, Mat 5:3-4 | ESV | STEP | because your heart was penitent , and you humbled yourself before the Lord , when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants , that they should become a desolation and a curse , and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord .

2 Kings 22:19

19 ^abecause your heart was penitent, and you ^bhumbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become ^ca desolation and ^da curse, and you ^ehave torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

Psalms 34:18

18 The Lord is near to ^fthe brokenhearted
and saves ^gthe crushed in spirit.

Psalms 51:17

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

Isaiah 57:15

15 For thus says ⁱthe One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is ^jHoly:
^k“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also ^lwith him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
^mto revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2

2 ⁿAll these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,

declares the Lord.
^oBut 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 ^pput a mark on the foreheads of the men who ^qsigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Matthew 5:3-4

3 ^r“Blessed are ^sthe poor in spirit, for ^ttheirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 “Blessed are ^uthose who mourn, for they shall be comforted.