2 Kings 22:19
22:19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit
and humbled yourself before the
Lord when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people.
You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the
Lord.
Isaiah 57:15
57:15 For this is what the high and exalted one says,
the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:
“I dwell in an exalted and holy place,
but also with the discouraged and humiliated,
in order to cheer up the humiliated
and to encourage the discouraged.
Isaiah 66:2
66:2 My hand made them;
that is how they came to be,” says the Lord.
I show special favor to the humble and contrite,
who respect what I have to say.
Ezekiel 36:26
36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone
from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:31
36:31 Then you will remember your evil behavior
and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.