Psalms 78:32-39

³²Despite all this they went right on sinning. Despite the miracles, they refused to trust him.

³³So he snuffed out their futile lives, bringing them to an end in terror.

³⁴When he began killing them, the rest came back to God in repentance, praying to him.

³⁵They remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Savior.

³⁶They flattered him by what they told him, but they were only lying.

³⁷Deep down they were not sincere, and did not keep the agreement they had with him.

³⁸But being compassionate he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy all of them. He often held back his anger—he did not pour out all his fury.

³⁹He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.