Psalm 78:38-40

21st Century King James Version

³⁸ 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;

³⁹ for He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰ How oft did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!