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But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath;
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For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.
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How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
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Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
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When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
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Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.
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He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them.
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He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost.
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He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning.