Psalm 78:34-40 NLT
When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously. [35] Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer. [36] But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues. [37] Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant. [38] Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury! [39] For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns. [40] Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.