Part 44

19:078:029 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

19:078:030 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

19:078:031 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

19:078:032 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

19:078:033 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

19:078:034 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

19:078:035 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

19:078:036 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

19:078:037 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

19:078:038 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.

19:078:039 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

19:078:040 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

19:078:041 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

19:078:042 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

19:078:043 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

19:078:044 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

19:078:045 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

19:078:046 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

19:078:047 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

19:078:048 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

19:078:049 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

19:078:050 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

19:078:051 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

19:078:052 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

19:078:053 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

19:078:054 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

19:078:055 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.

19:078:056 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: