35. They remembered that God was their protector,that the Almighty came to their aid.
36. But their words were all lies;nothing they said was sincere.
37. They were not loyal to him;they were not faithful to their covenant with him.
38. But God was merciful to his people.He forgave their sinand did not destroy them.Many times he held back his angerand restrained his fury.
39. He remembered that they were only mortal beings,like a wind that blows by and is gone.
40. How often they rebelled against him in the desert;how many times they made him sad!
41. Again and again they put God to the testand brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.
42. They forgot his great powerand the day when he saved them from their enemies
43. and performed his mighty acts and miraclesin the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
44. He turned the rivers into blood,and the Egyptians had no water to drink.
45. He sent flies among them, that tormented them,and frogs that ruined their land.