¹⁹ because your ^(A)heart was tender, and you ^(B)humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become ^(C)a desolation and ^(D)a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the Lord.

⁷ Now when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, ^(A)the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁶ Then the ^(A)runners went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his leaders, and spoke according to the command of the king: “Children of Israel, ^(B)return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; then He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of ^(C)the kings of ^(D)Assyria.

¹² Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and ^(A)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

¹³ and prayed to Him; and He ^(A)received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh ^(B)knew that the Lord was God.