⁷ maintaining love to thousands,^(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.^(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;^(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”^(D)

⁵ I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.

³⁹ Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(A) sins they will waste away.^(B)

⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(C) their sins^(D) and the sins of their ancestors^(E)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(F) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(G) are humbled^(H) and they pay^(I) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(J) and my covenant with Isaac^(K) and my covenant with Abraham,^(L) and I will remember the land.

¹⁸ ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.^(A) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’^(B)

³³ Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

³³ Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.