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

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

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

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

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: 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 sheepfolds: