36. They flattered him with their mouthsand lied to him with their tongues.
37. Their hearts were not loyal to him.They were not faithful to his promise.
38. But he is compassionate.He forgave their sin.He did not destroy them.He restrained his anger many times.He did not display all of his fury.
39. He remembered that they were only flesh and blood,a breeze that blows and does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness!How often they caused him grief in the desert!
41. Again and again they tested God,and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.
42. They did not remember his power—the day he freed them from their oppressor,
43. when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt,his wonders in the fields of Zoan.
44. He turned their rivers into bloodso that they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent a swarm of flies that bit themand frogs that ruined them.
46. He gave their crops to grasshoppersand their produce to locusts.
47. He killed their vines with hailand their fig trees with frost.
48. He let the hail strike their cattleand bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
49. He sent his burning anger, rage, fury, and hostility against them.He sent an army of destroying angels.
50. He cleared a path for his anger.He did not spare them.He let the plague take their lives.
51. He slaughtered every firstborn in Egypt,the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.