36. But their words were false.Their tongues lied to him.
37. Their hearts were not really loyal to God.They did not keep his agreement.
38. Still God was merciful.He forgave their sins.He did not destroy them.Many times he held back his anger.He did not stir up all his anger.
39. He remembered that they were only human.They were like a wind that blows and does not come back.
40. They turned against God so often in the desert!There they made him very sad.
41. Again and again they tested God.They brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his poweror the time he saved them from the enemy.
43. They forgot the signs he did in Egyptand his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44. He turned the rivers to blood.So no one could drink the water.
45. He sent flies that bit the people.He sent frogs that destroyed them.