Deuteronomy

²⁴Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. ²⁵So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the Lord had said he would destroy you. ²⁶And I prayed unto the Lord, and said, O Lord GOD destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²⁷Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: ²⁸lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. ²⁹Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thy stretched out arm.