Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,(A)

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

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17 They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.(A)
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a](B)
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,(C)
and You did not abandon them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read in their rebellion

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