Psalm 78:38-40

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁸ Yet he, being compassionate,
    forgave their iniquity,
    and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger,
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,
    a wind that passes and does not come again.
⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the desert!