17 Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and by thy stretched out arm, and there is nothing [a]hard unto thee.

18 (A)Thou showest mercy unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their [b]children after them: O God the great and mighty, whose name is the Lord of hosts,

19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work, (for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:17 Or, hid.
  2. Jeremiah 32:18 Because the wicked are subject to the curse of God, he showeth that their posterity which by nature are under this malediction, shall be punisheth both for their own wickedness, and that the iniquity of their fathers, which is likewise in them, shall be also revenged on their head.

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