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.
43. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan
44. and had turned their rivers into blood and their floods, that they could not drink.
45. He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46. He gave also their fruits unto the caterpillar and their works unto the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their wild fig trees with stones.
48. He gave up their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts of fire.