19 for the reason that your heart+ was soft so that you humbled+ yourself because of Jehovah at your hearing what I have spoken against this place and its inhabitants [for it]* to become an object of astonishment and a malediction,+ and then you ripped+ your garments apart and began weeping before me, I, even I, have heard,” is the utterance of Jehovah.+

15 For this is what the High and Lofty One,+ who is residing forever+ and whose name is holy,+ has said: “In the height and in the holy place is where I reside,+ also with the one crushed and lowly in spirit,*+ to revive the spirit of the lowly ones and to revive the heart of the ones being crushed.+

13 But the tax collector standing at a distance was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward, but kept beating his breast,+ saying, ‘O God, be gracious to me a sinner.’+