36. But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
37. For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38. But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
39. And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
40. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41. And they turned again and tempted ·God and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
42. They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
43. How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
44. And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
45. He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
46. And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
47. He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
48. And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, --a mission of angels of woes.
50. He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51. And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
52. And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53. And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
54. And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;