⁹ For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will be treated with ^(A)compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the Lord your God is ^(B)gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you ^(C)return to Him.”

⁵⁰ and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and ^(A)grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them

² and you ^(A)return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, ^3 (B)that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and ^(C)gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. ^4 (D)If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

⁶ And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord ^(A)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in ^(B)goodness and ^(C)truth, ^7 (D)keeping mercy for thousands, ^(E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^(F)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”