Deuteronomy 9:17-19

New Living Translation

¹⁷ So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.

¹⁸ “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger. ¹⁹ I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.