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PSALMS
- And winged fowl as the sand of the seas;
- 28And He let it fall in the midst of their camp,
- Round about their dwellings.
- 29So they did eat, and were well filled;
- And He gave them that which they craved.
- 30They were not estranged from their craving,
- Their food was yet in their mouths,
- 31When the anger of God went up against them,
- And slew of the lustieth among them,
- And smote down the young men of Israel.
- 32For all this they sinned still,
- And believed not in His wondrous works.
- 33Therefore He ended their days as a breath,
- And their years in terror.
- 34When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him,
- And turn back and seek God earnestly.
- 35And they remembered that God was their Rock,
- And the Most High God their redeemer.
- 36But they beguiled Him with their mouth,
- And lied unto Him with their tongue.
- 37For their heart was not stedfast with Him,
- Neither were they faithful in His covenant.
- 38But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not;
- Yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away,
- And doth not stir up all His wrath.
- 39So He remembered that they were but flesh,
- A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- 40How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness,
- And grieve Him in the desert!
- 41And still again they tried God,
- And set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.
- 42They remembered not His hand,
- Nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.
- 43How He set His signs in Egypt,
- And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
- 44And turned their rivers into blood,
- So that they could not drink their streams.
- 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
- And frogs, which destroyed them.
- 46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
- And their labour unto the locust.
- 47He destroyed their vines with hail,
- And their sycamore-trees with frost.
- 48He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
- And their flocks to fiery bolts.
- 49He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger,
- Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
- A sending of messengers of evil.
- 50He levelled a path for His anger;
- He spared not their soul from death,
- But gave their life over to the pestilence;
- 51And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
- The first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
- 52But He made His own people to go forth like sheep,
- And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- 53And He led them safely, and they feared not;
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