Deuteronomy 9:18-19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angering him. ¹⁹ I was afraid of the fierce anger the Lord had directed against you,^(A) because he was about to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me on that occasion.^(B)