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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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- 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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