33. So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.
34. When He killed them, then they sought Him, And returned and searched diligently for God;
35. And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
36. But they deceived Him with their mouth And lied to Him with their tongue.
37. For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
38. But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; And often He restrained His anger And did not arouse all His wrath.
39. Thus He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!
41. Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember His power, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,
43. When He performed His signs in Egypt And His marvels in the field of Zoan,
44. And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.
45. He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.
46. He gave also their crops to the grasshopper And the product of their labor to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.
48. He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning.