Tehillim 78:38-40

Orthodox Jewish Bible

³⁸ But He, being full of compassion, made kapporah for their avon and destroyed them not; and He many times turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

³⁹ For He remembered that they were but basar; a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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