37. For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38. But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
39. And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
40. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41. And they turned again and tempted ·God and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
42. They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
43. How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
44. And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;