17So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
18The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
19May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.
20And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
21But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
23They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
