24. You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25. So I fell down and lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26. And I prayed to the Lord, O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27. Remember [earnestly] Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or at their sin,
28. Lest the land from which You brought us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29. Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.