31. the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down in death.
32. In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders.
33. And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.
34. When he killed some of them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.
35. And they remembered that God was their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.
36. But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.
37. For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.
38. But he was compassionate; he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy them. And many times he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,
39. for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in the wasteland!
41. So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.
42. And they did not remember his power when he redeemed them from the enemy,
43. how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan,
44. when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them.
46. And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.
48. He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.
49. He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of destroying angels.