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.
45. He sent swarms of insects that devoured them,frogs that destroyed them.
46. He gave their harvest to the caterpillar,the fruits of their labor to the locust.
47. He killed their vines with hail,their sycamores with frost.
48. He exposed their cattle to plague,their flocks to pestilence.
49. He let loose against them the heat of his anger,wrath, fury, and distress,a band of deadly messengers.