These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word

 Isaiah 66:1-14

Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”

“These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word. 

But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy!’ Yet they will be put to shame.

Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the Lord. “Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.

As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.

Why?

How?

Be humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word