34  When he killed them, they sought him;

they repented and sought God earnestly.

35  They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God their ^uredeemer.

36  But they flattered him with their mouths;

they lied to him with their tongues.

37  Their heart was not steadfast toward him;

they were not faithful to his covenant.

38  Yet he, being compassionate,

^vatoned for their iniquity

and did not destroy them;

he restrained his anger often

and did not stir up all his wrath.

39  He ^wremembered that they were but ^xflesh,

a ^ywind that passes and comes not again.

40  How often they ^zrebelled against him in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert!

41  They tested God again and again

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42  They did not remember his power¹

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,