38But he was so merciful that he forgave their sins
and did not destroy them; *
many times he held back his anger
and did not permit his wrath to be roused.
39For he remembered that they were but flesh, *
a breath that goes forth and does not return.
Psalm 78: Part IIQuoties exacerbaverunt
40How often the people disobeyed him in the wilderness *
and offended him in the desert!
41Again and again they tempted God *
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42They did not remember his power *
in the day when he ransomed them from the enemy;
43How he wrought his signs in Egypt *
and his omens in the field of Zoan.
44He turned their rivers into blood, *
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45He sent swarms of flies among them, which ate them up, *
and frogs, which destroyed them.
46He gave their crops to the caterpillar, *
the fruit of their toil to the locust.
47He killed their vines with hail *
and their sycamores with frost.
48He delivered their cattle to hailstones *
and their livestock to hot thunderbolts.
698Psalm 78
