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 But he was so merciful that he forgave their sins and did not destroy them; * many times he held back his anger and did not permit his wrath to be roused.

For he remembered that they were but flesh, * a breath that goes forth and does not return.

How often the people disobeyed him in the wilderness * and offended him in the desert!

Again and again they tempted God * and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember his power * in the day when he ransomed them from the enemy;

How he wrought his signs in Egypt * and his omens in the field of Zoan.

He turned their rivers into blood, * so that they could not drink of their streams.

He sent swarms of flies among them, which ate them up, * and frogs, which destroyed them.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar, * the fruit of their toil to the locust.

He killed their vines with hail * and their sycamores with frost.

He delivered their cattle to hailstones * and their livestock to hot thunderbolts.