Exodus 32:10-13
10Now therefore alet me alone, that bmy wrath may burn hot against them and cI may consume them, in order that dI may make a great nation of you.”11But eMoses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 fWhy should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and grelent from this disaster against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you hswore by your own self, and said to them, i‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
Isaiah 62:6-7
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,I have set jwatchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
7and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it ka praise in the earth.
Jeremiah 14:11
11The Lord said to me: l“Do not pray for the welfare of this people.Jeremiah 15:1
The Lord Will Not Relent
1Then the Lord said to me, m“Though nMoses oand Samuel pstood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!Luke 11:7-10
7and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything qbecause he is his friend, yet because of his impudence ▼▼Or persistence
he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9And I tell you, sask, and tit will be given to you; useek, and you will find; vknock, and it will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Luke 18:1-8
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought walways to pray and not xlose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who yneither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, z‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7And aawill not God give justice to abhis elect, acwho cry to him day and night? ad, aeWill he delay long over them? 8I tell you, he will give justice to them afspeedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, agwill he find faith on earth?”
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