38. Yet he was merciful and forgave their sinsand did not destroy them all.Many times he held back his angerand did not unleash his fury!
39. For he remembered that they were merely mortal,gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
40. Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wildernessand grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
41. Again and again they tested God’s patienceand provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his powerand how he rescued them from their enemies.