32 But for all this, they sinned yet more ♦︎
and put no faith in his wonderful works.
33 So he brought their days to an end like a breath ♦︎
and their years in sudden terror.
34 Whenever he slew them, they would seek him; ♦︎
they would repent and earnestly search for God.
35 They remembered that God was their rock ♦︎
and the Most High God their redeemer.
36 Yet they did but flatter him with their mouth ♦︎
and dissembled with their tongue.
37 Their heart was not steadfast towards him, ♦︎
neither were they faithful to his covenant.
38 But he was so merciful that he forgave their misdeeds
and did not destroy them; ♦︎
many a time he turned back his wrath
and did not suffer his whole displeasure to be roused.
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh, ♦︎
a wind that passes by 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 provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power ♦︎
in the day when he redeemed them from the enemy;
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt ♦︎
and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers into blood, ♦︎
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, ♦︎
and frogs which brought them ruin.
46 He gave their produce to the caterpillar, ♦︎
the fruit of their toil to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hailstones ♦︎
and their sycamore trees with the frost.
48 He delivered their cattle to hailstones ♦︎
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 He set loose on them his blazing anger: ♦︎
fury, displeasure and trouble,
a troop of destroying angels.
50 He made a way for his anger
and spared not their souls from death, ♦︎
but gave their life over to the pestilence.
51 He smote the firstborn of Egypt, ♦︎
the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But he led out his people like sheep ♦︎
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them to safety and they were not afraid, ♦︎
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 He brought them to his holy place, ♦︎
the mountain which his right hand took in possession.
55 He drove out the nations before them
and shared out to them their inheritance; ♦︎
he settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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