A right heart is a BROKEN and CONTRITE heart (Psalm 51:17). It is broken off from pride, self-conceit, and self-righteousness. Its former high thoughts of self are cracked, shattered, and shivered to atoms. It thinks itself guilty, unworthy, and corrupt. Its former stubbornness, heaviness, and insensibility have thawed, disappeared, and passed away. It no longer thinks lightly of offending God. It is tender, sensitive, and jealously fearful of running into sin (2 Kings 22:19). It is humble, lowly, and self-abased, and sees in itself no good thing.

Psalm 51

17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. -nkjv

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. -kjv

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise. -nasb

17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. -niv

2 Kings 22

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

19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. -kjv

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

19 Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse<b=">b</a>"> and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. niv

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