Psalms 78:37-41

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.