Study Desk

Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for^[f] their guilt and did not destroy them. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash^[g] all His wrath.^(ak)

He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.^(al)

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.

They constantly tested God^(am) and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(an)

They did not remember His power shown on the day He redeemed them from the foe,^(ao)

when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His wonders in the region of Zoan.^(ap)

He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.^(aq)

He sent among them swarms of flies,^(ar) which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.^(as)

He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.^(at)

He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.^(au)

He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity— a band of deadly messengers.^[h](av)

He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.^(aw)

He struck all the firstborn^(ax) in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.^[i](ay)

He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.^(az)

He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.^(ba)

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.^(bb)

He drove out nations before them.^(bc) He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(bd)