32 Despite all this, they kept sinning

and did not believe his wondrous works.d

33 He made their days end in futility,

their years in sudden disaster.e

34 When he killed some of them,

the rest began to seek him;

they repented and searched for God.f

35 They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their Redeemer.g

36 But they deceived him with their mouths,

they lied to him with their tongues,h

37 their hearts were insincere toward him,

and they were unfaithful to his covenant.i

38 Yet he was compassionate;

he atoned for their iniquity

and did not destroy them.

He often turned his anger aside

and did not unleashA all his wrath.j

39 He remembered that they were only flesh,

a wind that passes and does not return.k

40 How often they rebelled against him

in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert.

41 They constantly tested Godl

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.m

42 They did not remember his power shown

on the day he redeemed them from the foe,n

43 when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt

and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.o

44 He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams.p

45 He sent among them swarms of flies,q

which fed on them,

and frogs, which devastated them.r

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.s

47 He killed their vines with hail

and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

48 He handed over their livestock to hail

and their cattle to lightning bolts.t

49 He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity—

a band of deadly messengers.B,u

50 He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.v

51 He struck all the firstbornw in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.x

52 He led his people out like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.y

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;

but the sea covered their enemies.z

54 He brought them to his holy territory,

to the mountain his right hand acquired.aa

55 He drove out nations before them.ab

He apportioned their inheritance by lot

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.ac