36. But then they would flatter him with their mouths,lying to him with their tongues;
37. their hearts were not loyal to him,they were not faithful to his covenant.
38. Yet he was merciful;he forgave their iniquitiesand did not destroy them.Time after time he restrained his angerand did not stir up his full wrath.
39. He remembered that they were but flesh,a passing breeze that does not return.
40. How often they rebelled against him in the wildernessand grieved him in the wasteland!
41. Again and again they put God to the test;they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his power –the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43. the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44. He turned their river into blood;they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,and frogs that devastated them.
46. He gave their crops to the grasshopper,their produce to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hailand their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48. He gave over their cattle to the hail,their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49. He unleashed against them his hot anger,his wrath, indignation and hostility –a band of destroying angels.
50. He prepared a path for his anger;he did not spare them from deathbut gave them over to the plague.
51. He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52. But he brought his people out like a flock;he led them like sheep through the wilderness.