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He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

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

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress,—a mission of angels of woes.

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

And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

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

And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.