Deuteronomy 9:24-26

New King James Version

^24 (A)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

^25 (B)“Thus I ^[a]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. ²⁶ Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and ^(C)Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.