20 Anyone who feared Jehovah’s word among Pharʹaoh’s servants caused his own servants and his livestock to flee into the houses,+

19 for the reason that your heart+ was soft so that you humbled+ yourself because of Jehovah at your hearing what I have spoken against this place and its inhabitants [for it]* to become an object of astonishment and a malediction,+ and then you ripped+ your garments apart and began weeping before me, I, even I, have heard,” is the utterance of Jehovah.+

2 “Now all these things my own hand has made, so that all these came to be,”*+ is the utterance of Jehovah. “To this one, then, I shall look, to the one afflicted and contrite in spirit+ and trembling at* my word.+