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because they did not believe Godor rely on his salvation.

He made the east wind blow in the skiesand drove the south wind by his might.

Despite all this, they kept sinningand did not believe his wondrous works.

their hearts were insincere toward him,and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

Yet he was compassionate;he atoned for their iniquityand did not destroy them.He often turned his anger asideand did not unleash all his wrath.

They did not remember his power shownon the day he redeemed them from the foe,

when he performed his miraculous signs in Egyptand his wonders in the territory of Zoan.

He sent his burning anger against them:fury, indignation, and calamity—a band of deadly messengers.

He cleared a path for his anger.He did not spare them from deathbut delivered their lives to the plague.

He led his people out like sheepand guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

He brought them to his holy territory,to the mountain his right hand acquired.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,for they did not keep his decrees.

They enraged him with their high placesand provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

He gave up his strength to captivityand his splendor to the hand of a foe.

He surrendered his people to the swordbecause he was enraged with his heritage.

Fire consumed his chosen young men,and his young women had no wedding songs.

His priests fell by the sword,and the widows could not lament.

He beat back his foes;he gave them lasting disgrace.

He built his sanctuary like the heights,like the earth that he established forever.

He chose David his servantand took him from the sheep pens;