39. For he remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passes away and does not come again.
40. How often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert!
41. And they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he ransomed them from anguish.
43. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan
44. and had turned their rivers into blood and their floods, that they could not drink.
45. He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46. He gave also their fruits unto the caterpillar and their works unto the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their wild fig trees with stones.
48. He gave up their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts of fire.
49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them.
50. He made a way to his anger; he did not spare their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence
51. and smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham:
52. But made his own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54. And he brought them into the borders of his holiness, into this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55. He cast out the Gentiles also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their habitations.