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39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.
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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 tested God again and again, 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 keep in mind his power, or the day when 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 displayed his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields 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 to blood, so that they could not drink of 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 devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed 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 destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
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He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over 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 issue of their strength in 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 Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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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 in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.
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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 them for a possession 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.
56 Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,
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But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
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