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.
52. But he led his own people out like sheepand guided them like a flock through the wilderness.
53. He led them safely.They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.
54. He brought them into his holy land,to this mountain that his power had won.
55. He forced nations out of their wayand gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance.He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.
56. They tested God Most High and rebelled against him.They did not obey his written instructions.
57. They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors.They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.
58. They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites.They made him furious because they worshiped idols.