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.
41. Again and again they tested God,provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his power,the day he redeemed them from the foe,
43. When he performed his signs in Egypt,his wonders in the plain of Zoan.
44. God turned their rivers to blood;their streams they could not drink.