because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before [Me], when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?

and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

And Reuben returned to the pit, and did not see Joseph in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

[ 37:33] And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

And David laid hold of his garments, and tore them; and all the men who were with him tore their clothes.

And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, [that] he tore his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, [able] to kill and to make alive, that this [man] sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? Consider, however, and see that this [man] seeks an occasion against me.

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel heard the words of the woman, [that] he tore his clothes; and he passed by on the wall, and the people saw sackcloth upon his flesh.

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes.

So Job arose and tore his clothes, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the ground and worshipped,

I have not chosen this fast, nor [such] a day for a man to afflict his soul; although you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you call a fast acceptable.

"Moreover, when you fast, do not become gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men [to be] fasting. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

so that you do not appear to men [to be] fasting, but to your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

For bodily exercise is profitable a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life and of the coming life.

And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity and unrighteousness and sins; and He will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

For You, O Lord, are kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon You.

But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

They shall utter the memory of the abundance of Your goodness, and shall exalt in Your righteousness.

The Lord is good to those that wait [on Him]; and His compassions are over all His works.

And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish; because I knew that You are merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and abundant in kindness, and relent of [bringing about] evil.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and refused to listen, and remembered not Your wonders which You worked among them. And they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and You did not forsake them.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, longsuffering, and full of mercy.

The Lord is longsuffering, and His power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: His way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.

[If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them];

and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.

And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in number.

Thus has the Lord showed me; and behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.

This also shall not be, says the Lord.

And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish; because I knew that You are merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and abundant in kindness, and relent of [bringing about] evil.