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38 Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for [their] guilt and did not destroy [them]. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.
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Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
39 He remembered that they were [only] flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His power [shown] on the day He redeemed them from the foe,
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They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His marvels in the region of Zoan.
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the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
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He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.
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He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47 He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.
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He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.
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He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity- a band of deadly messengers.
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He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives to the plague.
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He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
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He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
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He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.
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And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
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