37. For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.
38. But he was compassionate; he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy them. And many times he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,
39. for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in the wasteland!
41. So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.
42. And they did not remember his power when he redeemed them from the enemy,
43. how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan,
44. when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams.