Psalm 78:38-40

Lexham English Bible

³⁸ But he was compassionate; he pardoned^[a] their guilt
and did not destroy them.
And many times he turned back his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath,
³⁹ for he remembered that they were flesh,
a passing wind that does not return.
⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and vexed him in the wasteland!