²⁴ You have been rebellious against the Lord from the [first] day that I knew you.

²⁵ “So I fell down and lay face down before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you. ²⁶ Then I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought from Egypt with a mighty hand.