⁶ Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, ^(A)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and ^[a]truth;

⁷ who ^(A)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He ^(B)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(C)inflicting the ^[a]punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”