If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

Which

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.

Though

Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

General references

For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.