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

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

Which

and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting 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.Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out before You day and night.

as we pray very earnestly night and day to see you face to face and to complete what is lacking in your faith?

The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when 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 sanctuary.
The One seated on the throne will shelter them:

Though

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, how long will You forget me?
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
it testifies about the end and will not lie.
Though it delays, wait for it,
since it will certainly come and not be late.

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

General references

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.