38. But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.
39. And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
40. How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
41. And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
42. They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
43. How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.