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39 He remembered that they were flesh,

A breath of wind that passeth by and returneth. not.

40 How oft did they provoke Him in the desert, Did they grieve Him in the wilderness !

11 And again and again they sought God, And vexed the Holy One of Israel.

42 They remembered not His hand,

The day when He delivered them from the oppressor,

43 When He set His signs in Egypt

And His remarkable deeds in the field of Zoan.

44 He turned their Niles into blood,

And their running waters they could not drink.

45 He sent gad-flies against them, which devoured them, And frogs, which brought destruction upon them.

46 He gave the fruit of their field to the cricket, And their labour to the locust ;

47 He smote down their vine with hail, And their sycamore-trees with hail-stones ;

18 And He gave over their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to the lightnings.

49 He let loose upon them the burning of His anger, Indignation and fury and distress,

An embassy of angels of misfortune ;

50 He made plain a way for His anger, He spared not their soul from death,

And their life He gave over to the pestilence.

51 He smote all the first-born in Egypt,

The firstlings of manly strength in the tents of Ham.

52 Then He made His own people to go forth like sheep, And guided them like a flock in the desert;

53 And He led them safely without fear, But their enemies the sea covered.

54 He brought them to His holy border,

To the mountain, which His right hand had acquired;

55 He drove out nations before them,