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## Psalms 78:40-42 in Context (Verses 37–45 KJV)
 
 [37 ](/kjv/psalms/78/37) For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
 
 [38 ](/kjv/psalms/78/38) 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 ](/kjv/psalms/78/39) For he remembered that they *were but* flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/psalms/78/40) How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, *and* grieve him in the desert!*
 
 [41 ](/kjv/psalms/78/41) Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
 
 [42 ](/kjv/psalms/78/42) They remembered not his hand, *nor* the day when he delivered them from the enemy.*
 
 [43 ](/kjv/psalms/78/43) How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:*
 
 [44 ](/kjv/psalms/78/44) And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
 
 [45 ](/kjv/psalms/78/45) He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
 
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