38 But He is compassionate, covers iniquity, and destroys not; Yea, many a time He takes back His anger, And rouses not all His wrath. 39 So He remembered that they were [but] flesh, A wind that goes and comes not again. 40 How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, Did they grieve Him in the desert! 41 Yea, again and again they tempted God, And the Holy One of Israel they vexed. 42 They remembered not His hand, The day when He set them free from the adversary, 43 When He set forth His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan. 44 And He turned to blood their Nile streams, And their streams they could not drink. 45 He sent amongst them flies that devoured them, And frogs that destroyed them. 46 And He gave their increase to the caterpillar, And their toil to the locust. 47 He killed their vines with hail, And their sycamores with frost. [?] 48 And He gave their cattle up to the hail, And their flocks to the lightnings. 49 He sent against them the heat of His anger, Wrath and indignation and trouble, A mission of angels of evil. 50 He levelled a path for His anger, He spared not their souls from death, But delivered over their life to the pestilence. 51 And He smote all the first-born of Egypt, The firstlings of [their] strength in the tents of Ham. 52 And He made His people go forth like sheep, And guided them like a flock in the desert. 53 And He led them safely, that they did not fear, And the sea covered their enemies. 54 And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain, which His right hand had won. 55 And He drove out the nations before them, And allotted them by line as an inheritance, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 But they tempted and provoked God Most High, And His testimonies they did not keep. 57 And they turned back and were faithless like their fathers, They were turned aside like a deceitful bow; 58 And they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And with their graven images they moved Him to jealousy. 59 God heard and was wroth, And loathed Israel exceedingly. 60 So that He rejected the habitation of Shiloh, The tent [which] He had pitched among men. 61 And He gave His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of the adversary. 62 And He delivered His people to the sword, And against His inheritance He was wroth. 63 Their young men the fire devoured, And their maidens were not praised in the marriage-song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.