Psalms 78:38

³⁶  Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

³⁷  For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

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!