Deuteronomy 9:25-29

²⁵“So I fell down before the Lord for the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord said He would destroy you. ²⁶And I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Lord God, do not destroy Your people, 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 turn Your attention to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or their sin. ²⁸Otherwise, the people of the land from which You brought us will say, “Since the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them, and since He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness!” ²⁹Yet they are Your people, and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’