³⁸Yet he, being ocompassionate,

patoned for their iniquity

and did not destroy them;

he restrained his anger often

and did not stir up all his wrath.

³⁹He qremembered that they were but rflesh,

sa wind that passes and comes not again.

⁴⁰How often they trebelled against him in the wilderness

and ugrieved him in vthe desert!

⁴¹They wtested God again and again

and provoked xthe Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They ydid not remember his power5

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,

⁴³zwhen he performed his asigns in Egypt

and his bmarvels in cthe fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He dturned their rivers to blood,

so that they could not drink of their streams.

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of eflies, which devoured them,

and ffrogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to gthe destroying locust

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hhail

and their sycamores with frost.

⁴⁸He gave over their icattle to the hail

and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He let loose on them his burning anger,

wrath, indignation, and distress,

a company of jdestroying angels.

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death,

but gave their lives over to the plague.

⁵¹He struck down every kfirstborn in Egypt,

the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of lHam.

⁵²Then he led out his people mlike sheep

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³nHe led them in safety, so that they owere not afraid,

but pthe sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to his qholy land,

rto the mountain which his right hand had swon.

⁵⁵He tdrove out nations before them;

he uapportioned them for a possession

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they vtested and wrebelled against the Most High God

and did not keep his testimonies,

⁵⁷but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;

they twisted like xa deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they yprovoked him to anger with their zhigh places;

they amoved him to jealousy with their bidols.

⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of cwrath,

and he utterly rejected Israel.

⁶⁰He dforsook his dwelling at eShiloh,

the tent where he dwelt among mankind,

⁶¹and delivered his fpower to captivity,

his gglory to the hand of the foe.

⁶²He hgave his people over to the sword

and ivented his wrath on his heritage.

⁶³jFire devoured their young men,

and their young women had no kmarriage song.

⁶⁴Their lpriests fell by the sword,

and their mwidows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord nawoke as from sleep,

like a strong man shouting because of wine.

⁶⁶And he oput his adversaries to rout;

he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of pJoseph;

he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion, which he qloves.

⁶⁹He rbuilt his sanctuary like the high heavens,

like the earth, which he has founded forever.

⁷⁰He schose David his servant

and took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹from tfollowing the nursing ewes he brought him

to ushepherd Jacob his people,

Israel his vinheritance.

⁷²With wupright heart he shepherded them

and xguided them with his skillful hand.