34. But whenever God killed them, they went after him!They would turn and earnestly search for God.
35. They would remember that God was their rock,that the Most High was their redeemer.
36. But they were just flattering him with lip service.They were lying to him with their tongues.
37. Their hearts weren’t firmly set on him;they weren’t faithful to his covenant.
38. But God, being compassionate,kept forgiving their sins,kept avoiding destruction;he took back his anger so many times,wouldn’t stir up all his wrath!
39. God kept remembering that they were just flesh,just breath that passes and doesn’t come back.
40. How often they rebelled against God in the wildernessand distressed him in the desert!
41. Time and time again they tested God,provoking the holy one of Israel.
42. They didn’t remember God’s power—the day when he saved them from the enemy;
43. how God performed his signs in Egypt,his marvelous works in the field of Zoan.
44. God turned their rivers into blood;they couldn’t drink from their own streams.
45. God sent swarms against them to eat them up,frogs to destroy them.
46. God handed over their crops to caterpillars,their land’s produce to locusts.
47. God killed their vines with hail,their sycamore trees with frost.
48. God delivered their cattle over to disease,their herds to plagues.
49. God unleashed his burning anger against them—fury, indignation, distress,a troop of evil messengers.
50. God blazed a path for his wrath.He didn’t save them from death,but delivered their lives over to disease.