Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Why, O Lord, are You very angry with Your people, whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with Your mighty arm?

And now if You will forgive their sin, forgive; and if not, blot me out of Your book, which You have written.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly, to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.

And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed [before], for the Lord said that He would utterly destroy you.

And I remained in the mountain for forty days and forty nights. And the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.

And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

[you] seed of Abraham, His servants, [you] children of Jacob, His elect.

He sent forth Moses His servant, [and] Aaron whom He had chosen.

And he spoke to Korah and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are His and who are holy, and has brought them to Himself; and whom He has chosen for Himself, He has brought to Himself.

"Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve His people.

Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,

And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found [him] not.

Confess your transgressions to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of the righteous is very powerful.