39And he remembered that they are but flesh, a spirit that passeth away, and returneth not again.
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, grieve him in the desert!
41Yea, they once more tempted God, and set limits to the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand, the day when he ransomed them from the adversary;
43When he displayed in Egypt his signs, and his wonderful tokens in the fields of Zo'an.
44And he changed their rivers into blood; and their running streams, that they could not drink of them.
45He sent out among them various wild beasts, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46And he gave unto the cricket their products, and their labor unto the locust.
47He slew with hail their vines, and their sycamore-trees with ice-bolts.
48And he surrendered to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the lightning's flashes.
49He let loose against them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation, and distress, a host of angels of misfortune.
50He leveled a path for his anger; he withheld not from death their soul, and their life he surrendered to the pestilence;
51And he smote all the first-born in Egypt; the first of their strength in the tents of Ham;
52But he caused his own people to depart like flocks, and guided them like a drove in the wilderness.
53And he led them in safety, so that they felt no dread; but the sea covered over their enemies.
54And he brought them to his holy territory, even to this mount, which his right hand had acquired.
55And he drove out from before them nations, and divided them by the measuring-line as an inheritance, and he caused to dwell in their tents the tribes of Israel.
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the most high God, and his testimonies they kept not;
57But swerved aside, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned about like a deceitful bow.
58And they provoked him to anger with their high-places, and with their graven images they moved him to jealousy.
59God heard this, and he became wroth, and felt greatly disgusted with Israel;
60And he cast off the dwelling at Shiloh, the tabernacle where he had dwelt among men;
61And he gave up his strength unto captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand.
62And he surrendered his people unto the sword; and with his inheritance was he wroth.
63His young men the fire devoured; and his virgins were not demanded in marriage.
64His priests fell by the sword; and his widows did not weep.
65Then awoke the Lord as one that sleepeth, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.