24. You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25. So 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.
26. I prayed to the Lord, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28. lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29. Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”