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 who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Which

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you.

as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?

She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,

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

"Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

Though

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely 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.