34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. |
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. |
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! |
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. |
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: |
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. |
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. |
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. |
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. |
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; |
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. |
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. |
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. |
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. |
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |
