38
Yet he, being
1compassionate,
2atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
39
He
3remembered that they were but
4flesh,
5a wind that passes and comes not again.
40
How often they
6rebelled against him in the wilderness and
7grieved him in
8the desert!
41
They
9tested God again and again and provoked
10the Holy One of Israel.
42
They
11did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43
12when he performed his
13signs in Egypt and his
14marvels in
15the fields of Zoan.
44
He
16turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
45
He sent among them swarms of
17flies, which devoured them, and
18frogs, which destroyed them.
46
He gave their crops to
19the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47
He destroyed their vines with
20hail and their sycamores with frost.
48
He gave over their
21cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of
22destroying angels.
50
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
51
He struck down every
23firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of
24Ham.
52
Then he led out his people
25like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53
26He led them in safety, so that they
27were not afraid, but
28the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54
And he brought them to his
29holy land,
30to the mountain which his right hand had
31won.
55
He
32drove out nations before them; he
33apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56
Yet they
34tested and
35rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
57
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like
36a deceitful bow.
58
For they
37provoked him to anger with their
38high places; they
39moved him to jealousy with their
40idols.
59
When God heard, he was full of
41wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60
He
42forsook his dwelling at
43Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
61
and delivered his
44power to captivity, his
45glory to the hand of the foe.
62
He
46gave his people over to the sword and
47vented his wrath on his heritage.
63
48Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no
49marriage song.
64
Their
50priests fell by the sword, and their
51widows made no lamentation.
65
Then the Lord
52awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66
And he
53put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
67
He rejected the tent of
54Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he
55loves.
69
He
56built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70
He
57chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
71
from
58following the nursing ewes he brought him to
59shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his
60inheritance.
72
With
61upright heart he shepherded them and
62guided them with his skillful hand.