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- For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
- Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
- And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
- Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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- In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
- So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
- Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
- They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
- But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
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- For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
- 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.
- For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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- their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
- Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
- He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
- Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
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