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2 Kings 22:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord   when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse,  and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

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‘Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime,  because he has humbled himself before me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.’


For the High and Exalted One, who lives for ever, whose name is holy,  says this: ‘I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.


So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.


Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the  Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.


Afterwards, David’s conscience bothered  , him because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.


As he approached and saw the city, he wept  for it,


The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed,  so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.


You who tremble at his word, hear the word of the  Lord: ‘Your brothers who hate and exclude you for my name’s sake have said, “Let the Lord be glorified so that we can see your joy! ” But they will be put to shame.’


I will make this temple like Shiloh.  I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.” ’


My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble,  submissive   in spirit, and trembles at my word.


When he was in distress, he sought the favour of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself  before the God of his ancestors.


His prayer and how God was receptive to his prayer, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Events of Hozai.


‘Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader  of my people, “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer;  I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.


When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying  before the God of the heavens.


While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling face down  before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.


But he did not humble himself before the Lord like his father Manasseh humbled himself;  instead, Amon increased his guilt.


When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.


Then  Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says, “I have heard your prayer  to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria.”


The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord.  They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.


All its soil will be a burning waste of sulphur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.


‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads  of the men who sigh and groan  over all the detestable practices committed in it.’


As they heard all these words, the king and all his servants did not become terrified  or tear their clothes.


You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow, an extremely severe wound.


But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the Lord’s flock  has been taken captive.


If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear   people.


Listen to me, you hard-hearted, far removed from justice:


Nehemiah the governor,  Ezra the priest and scribe,  and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, ‘This day  is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.’  For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.


An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.


because  your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart #– #he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem #– #so the Lord’s wrath didn’t come  on them during Hezekiah’s lifetime.


Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.





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