⁶ The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^(A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^(B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^(C)love and faithfulness,

^7 (A)keeping steadfast love for thousands,^{[a] (B)}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^(C)who will by no means clear the guilty, ^(D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”