New Revised Standard Version
O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD and our God, you answered their prayers and forgave their sins, but when they did wrong, you punished them.

New American Bible
O LORD, our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, though you punished their offenses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

thou wast

Psalm 89:33 But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.

Numbers 14:20 And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.

Deuteronomy 9:19 For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also.

Jeremiah 46:28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

Zephaniah 3:7 I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.

through

Exodus 32:2,34,35 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. . . .

Numbers 11:33,34 As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague. . . .

Numbers 14:20-24 And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word. . . .

Numbers 20:12,24 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them. . . .

Deuteronomy 3:26 And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.

Deuteronomy 9:20 And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.

their inventions

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.