26. and I prayed:Our Lord, please don't wipe out your people. You used your great power to rescue them from Egypt and to make them your very own.
27. Israel's ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob obeyed you faithfully. Think about them, and not about Israel's stubbornness, evil, and sin.
28. If you destroy your people, the Egyptians will say, “The Lord promised to give Israel land, but he wasn't powerful enough to keep his promise. In fact, he hated them so much that he took them into the desert and killed them.”
29. But you, our Lord, chose the people of Israel to be your own, and with your mighty power you rescued them from Egypt.