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They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed them.

Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? will he provide flesh for his people?

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.

How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil.

He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand.

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: