28. At his command amidst their campthese show'rs of flesh down fell,All round about the tabernaclesand tents where they did dwell.
29. So they did eat abundantly,and had of meat their fill;For he did give to them what wastheir own desire and will.
30. They from their lust had not estrang'dtheir heart and their desire;But while the meat was in their mouths,which they did so require,
31. God's wrath upon them came,and slew the fattest of them all;So that the choice of Israel,o'erthrown by death, did fall.
32. Yet, notwithstanding of all this,they sinned still the more;And though he had great wonders wrought,believ'd him not therefore:
33. Wherefore their days in vanityhe did consume and waste;And by his wrath their wretched yearsaway in trouble past.
34. But when he slew them, then they didto seek him shew desire;Yea, they return'd, and after Godright early did enquire.
35. And that the Lord had been their Rock,they did remember then;Ev'n that the high almighty Godhad their Redeemer been.
36. Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him,and spake but feignedly;And they unto the God of truthwith their false tongues did lie.
37. For though their words were good, their heartwith him was not sincere;Unstedfast and perfidiousthey in his cov'nant were.
38. But, full of pity, he forgavetheir sin, them did not slay;Nor stirr'd up all his wrath, but ofthis anger turn'd away.
39. For that they were but fading fleshto mind he did recall;A wind that passeth soon away,and not returns at all.