¹⁸ The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love,^(A) forgiving iniquity and rebellion.^(B) But he will not leave the guilty unpunished,^(C) bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.^(D)

¹⁸ You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them,^(A) great and mighty God^(B) whose name is the Lord of Armies,