29. They ate and were well filled;he gave them what they had craved.
30. But while they still wanted more,and the food was still in their mouths,
31. God’s anger flared up against them,and he made a slaughter of their strongest,laying low the youth of Israel.
32. In spite of all this they went on sinning,they did not believe in his wonders.
33. God ended their days abruptly,their years in sudden death.
34. When he slew them, they began to seek him;they again looked for God.
35. They remembered that God was their rock,God Most High, their redeemer.
36. But they deceived him with their mouths,lied to him with their tongues.
37. Their hearts were not constant toward him;they were not faithful to his covenant.
38. But God being compassionate forgave their sin;he did not utterly destroy them.Time and again he turned back his anger,unwilling to unleash all his rage.
39. He remembered that they were flesh,a breath that passes on and does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness,grieved him in the wasteland.