1 KINGS 8:50-51

⁵⁰and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

⁵¹For they be thy people, and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: