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When he killed them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
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Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
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Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
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They tested God again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
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when he displayed his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
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He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
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He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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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 struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.
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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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Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,
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but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
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When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
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He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,
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and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.