Psalms 78:35-42

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.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!

⁴¹Again and again they provoked God, causing pain to the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They did not remember his strength when he rescued them from their oppressors,