Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, (A)compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and [a]truth; who (B)keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He (C)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, (D)visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:6 Or faithfulness

17 “They refused to listen,
And (A)did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them;
So they became stubborn and (B)appointed a leader to return to their slavery [a]in Egypt.
But You are a God (C)of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;
And You did not forsake them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:17 So Gr and some Heb mss; Heb reads in their rebellion

The Lord is (A)compassionate and gracious,
(B)Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

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