38. But He, full of [merciful] compassion, forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not; yes, many a time He turned His anger away and did not stir up all His wrath and indignation.
39. For He [earnestly] remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that goes and does not return.
40. How often they defied and rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
41. And time and again they turned back and tempted God, provoking and incensing the Holy One of Israel.
42. They remembered not [seriously the miracles of the working of] His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy,
43. How He wrought His miracles in Egypt and His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided]
44. And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink from them.
45. He sent swarms of [venomous] flies among them which devoured them, and frogs which destroyed them.
46. He gave also their crops to the caterpillar and [the fruit of] their labor to the locust.