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.