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78.27 :And winged fowl as the sand of the seas;
 * And He let it fall in the midst of their camp,
 * Round about their dwellings.
 * So they did eat, and were well filled;
 * And He gave them that which they craved.
 * They were not estranged from their craving,
 * Their food was yet in their mouths,
 * When the anger of God went up against them,
 * And slew of the lustieth among them,
 * And smote down the young men of Israel.


 * For all this they sinned still,
 * And believed not in His wondrous works.
 * Therefore He ended their days as a breath,
 * And their years in terror.
 * When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him,
 * And turn back and seek God earnestly.
 * And they remembered that God was their Rock,
 * And the Most High God their redeemer.
 * But they beguiled Him with their mouth,
 * And lied unto Him with their tongue.
 * For their heart was not stedfast with Him,
 * Neither were they faithful in His covenant.
 * But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not;
 * Yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away,
 * And doth not stir up all His wrath.
 * So He remembered that they were but flesh,
 * A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.


 * How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness,
 * And grieve Him in the desert!
 * And still again they tried God,
 * And set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.
 * They remembered not His hand,
 * Nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.
 * How He set His signs in Egypt,
 * And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
 * And turned their rivers into blood,
 * So that they could not drink their streams.
 * He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
 * And frogs, which destroyed them.
 * He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
 * And their labour unto the locust.
 * He destroyed their vines with hail,
 * And their sycamore-trees with frost.
 * He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
 * And their flocks to fiery bolts.
 * He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger,
 * Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
 * A sending of messengers of evil.
 * He levelled a path for His anger;
 * He spared not their soul from death,
 * But gave their life over to the pestilence;
 * And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
 * The first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
 * But He made His own people to go forth like sheep,
 * And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
 * And He led them safely, and they feared not;