36. But they deceived Him with their mouths,they lied to Him with their tongues,
37. their hearts were insincere toward Him,and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
38. Yet He was compassionate;He atoned for their guiltand did not destroy them.He often turned His anger asideand did not unleash all His wrath.
39. He remembered that they were only flesh,a wind that passes and does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against Himin the wildernessand grieved Him in the desert.
41. They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember His power shownon the day He redeemed them from the foe,
43. when He performed His miraculous signs in Egyptand His wonders in the region of Zoan.
44. He turned their rivers into blood,and they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them,and frogs, which devastated them.
46. He gave their crops to the caterpillarand the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47. He killed their vines with hailand their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
48. He handed over their livestock to hailand their cattle to lightning bolts.
49. He sent His burning anger against them:fury, indignation, and calamity —a band of deadly messengers.
50. He cleared a path for His anger.He did not spare them from deathbut delivered their lives to the plague.