Psalm 78:38-40

Good News Translation

³⁸ But God was merciful to his people.
    He forgave their sin
    and did not destroy them.
Many times he held back his anger
    and restrained his fury.
³⁹ He remembered that they were only mortal beings,
    like a wind that blows by and is gone.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the desert;
    how many times they made him sad!