Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.

And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.