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.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost and [great chunks of] ice.
48. He [caused them to shut up their cattle or] gave them up also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. [Exod. 9:18-21.]
49. He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them.
50. He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague.
51. He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
52. But [God] led His own people forth like sheep and guided them [with a shepherd's care] like a flock in the wilderness.