Deuteronomy 9:25-29

25“1So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I 2did because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

263I 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 out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

28Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “4Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had 5promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

29Yet they are Your people, even 6Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your 7great power and Your outstretched arm.’