30. While they were still eating,and while the food was still in their mouths,
31. God became angry with them.He killed some of the healthiest of them;he struck down the best young men of Israel.
32. But they kept on sinning;they did not believe even with the miracles.
33. So he ended their days without meaningand their years in terror.
34. Anytime he killed them, they would look to him for help;they would come back to God and follow him.
35. They would remember that God was their Rock,that God Most High had saved them.
36. But their words were false,and their tongues lied to him.
37. Their hearts were not really loyal to God;they did not keep his agreement.
38. Still God was merciful.He forgave their sinsand did not destroy them.Many times he held back his angerand did not stir up all his anger.
39. He remembered that they were only human,like a wind that blows and does not come back.
40. They turned against God so often in the desertand grieved him there.
41. Again and again they tested Godand brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his poweror the time he saved them from the enemy.
43. They forgot the signs he did in Egyptand his wonders in the fields of Zoan.
44. He turned their rivers to bloodso no one could drink the water.
45. He sent flies that bit the people.He sent frogs that destroyed them.
46. He gave their crops to grasshoppersand what they worked for to locusts.
47. He destroyed their vines with hailand their sycamore trees with sleet.