If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

Which

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day,

For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His

temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

Though

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

General references

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.