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,