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16 “It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them that he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.” 17 And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

18 “The Lord is slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love,
forgiving iniquity and transgression,
but by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation.”

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