⁶ The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

The Lord—the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth,^(A)

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)

¹⁵ Then God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when the angel was about to destroy the city,^[a] the Lord looked, relented concerning the destruction,^(A) and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Ornan^[b] the Jebusite.

⁸ However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.^(A)

² He prayed to the Lord,^(A) “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place.^(B) I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,^(C) slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.^(D)