The fourth part.
[verse 37] For why? their hearts were nothing bent
to him nor to his trade:
Nor yet to keep or to perform
the covenant that was made.
[verse 38] Yet was he still so merciful,
when they deserv'd tody,
That he forgave them their misdeeds,
and would not them destroy.
Yea, many a time he turn'd his wrath,
and did himself advise:
And would not suffer all his whole
displeasure to arise.
[verse 39] Considering that they were but flesh,
and even as a wind
That passeth away, and cannot well
return by his own kinde.
[verse 40] How oftentimes in wilderness
did they the Lord provoke!
How did they move and stir the Lord
to plague them with his stroke!
[verse 41] Yet did they turn again to fin,
and tempted God estloon,
Prescribing to the holy Lord
what things they would have done.
[verse 42] Not thinking of his hand and power,
nor of the day when he
Delivered them out of the hands
of the fierce enemie:
[verse 43] Nor how he wrought his miracles
(as they themselves beheld)
In Egypt, and the wonders that
he did in Zoan field.
[verse 44] Nor how he turned by his power
their waters into bloud:
That no man might receive his drink
at river nor at floud.
[verse 45] Nor how he sent them swarms of flies,
which did them sore annoy:
And fill'd their countrey full of frogs,
which did their land destroy.