33. So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
34. But when He slew them, then they sought Him, and turned back, and desired God eagerly.
35. Then they remembered that God was their Rock and El Elyon their Redeemer.
36. But they flattered Him with their mouth and kept lying to Him with their tongue.
37. For their heart was not steadfast with Him, nor were they faithful to His covenant.
38. But He is compassionate, forgives iniquity and does not destroy. Yes, many times He restrains His anger, and does not stir up all His wrath.
39. For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.
40. How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!
41. Again and again they tested God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember His hand— the day He redeemed them from the foe,
43. when He displayed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the plain of Zoan.
44. He turned their rivers into blood, so they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent on them flies to devour them, and frogs to devastate them,
46. and gave their crops to the grasshopper, and their labor to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost,
48. and gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.
49. He sent on them the fury of His anger —wrath and indignation and trouble— a band of evil angels.
50. He cleared a path for His anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague.
51. He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52. But He brought His people out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.