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

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

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

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

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

They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

How he had wrought 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, by sending evil angels [among them].

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

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

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

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

And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.