^19 (A)since your heart was tender and ^(B)you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become ^(C)an object of horror and a ^(D)curse, and you have ^(E)torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have indeed heard you,’ declares the Lord.”

⁷ When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “^(A)They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them; and I will grant them a little deliverance, and ^(B)My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.

²⁶ However, ^(A)Hezekiah ^[a]humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.