Psalms 78:32-40

32But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.

33So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.

34When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously.

35Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.

36But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues.

37Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.

38Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!

39For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

40Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.