37For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
         Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

38But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;
         And often He restrained His anger
         And did not arouse all His wrath.

39Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
         A wind that passes and does not return.

40How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
         And grieved Him in the desert!

41Again and again they tempted God,
         And pained the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember His power,
         The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

43When He performed His signs in Egypt
         And His marvels in the field of Zoan,

44And turned their rivers to blood,
         And their streams, they could not drink.

45He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
         And frogs which destroyed them.

46He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
         And the product of their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hailstones
         And their sycamore trees with frost.

48He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
         And their herds to bolts of lightning.

49He sent upon them His burning anger,
         Fury and indignation and trouble,
         A band of destroying angels.

50He leveled a path for His anger;
         He did not spare their soul from death,
         But gave over their life to the plague,

51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
         The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.

52But He led forth His own people like sheep
         And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
         But the sea engulfed their enemies.

54So He brought them to His holy land,
         To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

55He also drove out the nations before them
         And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
         And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
         And did not keep His testimonies,

57But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
         They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

58For they provoked Him with their high places
         And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

59When God heard, He was filled with wrath
         And greatly abhorred Israel;

60So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
         The tent which He had pitched among men,

61And gave up His strength to captivity
         And His glory into the hand of the adversary.

62He also delivered His people to the sword,
         And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

63Fire devoured His young men,
         And His virgins had no wedding songs.

64His priests fell by the sword,
         And His widows could not weep.

65Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
         Like a warrior overcome by wine.

66He drove His adversaries backward;
         He put on them an everlasting reproach.

67He also rejected the tent of Joseph,
         And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68But chose the tribe of Judah,
         Mount Zion which He loved.

69And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
         Like the earth which He has founded forever.

70He also chose David His servant
         And took him from the sheepfolds;

71From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him
         To shepherd Jacob His people,
         And Israel His inheritance.

72So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
         And guided them with his skillful hands.

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