39And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.
43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;
44And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink.
45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil.
50He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:
52But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53And he led them safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;
57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.
64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.