30. they were not estranged from their lust. But while their food was yet in their mouths,
31. the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen of Israel.
32. For all this they sinned still and did not give him credit for his wondrous works.
33. Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in tribulation.
34. When he slew them, then they sought him, and they returned and enquired early after God.
35. And they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer.
36. Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
38. But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath.
39. For he remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passes away and does not come again.
40. How often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert!
41. And they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he ransomed them from anguish.