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Yet he was merciful;^(az) he forgave^(ba) their iniquities^(bb) and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger^(bc) and did not stir up his full wrath.

He remembered that they were but flesh,^(bd) a passing breeze^(be) that does not return.

How often they rebelled^(bf) against him in the wilderness^(bg) and grieved him^(bh) in the wasteland!

Again and again they put God to the test;^(bi) they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(bj)

They did not remember^(bk) his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(bl)

the day he displayed his signs^(bm) in Egypt, his wonders^(bn) in the region of Zoan.

He turned their river into blood;^(bo) they could not drink from their streams.

He sent swarms of flies^(bp) that devoured them, and frogs^(bq) that devastated them.

He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(br) their produce to the locust.^(bs)

He destroyed their vines with hail^(bt) and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock^(bu) to bolts of lightning.

He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(bv) his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.^(bw)

He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(bx) the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(by)

But he brought his people out like a flock;^(bz) he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed^(ca) their enemies.^(cb)

And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand^(cc) had taken.

He drove out nations^(cd) before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(ce) he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.