18 ‘Jehovah, slow to anger+ and abundant in loving-kindness,*+ pardoning error and transgression,+ but by no means will he give exemption from punishment,+ bringing punishment for the error of the fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation.’+

9 You must not bow down to them or be led to serve* them,+ because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion,*+ bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons* and* upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation,* in the case of those who hate me;+

10 for that reason here I am bringing calamity upon the house of Jer·o·boʹam, and I shall certainly cut off from Jer·o·boʹam anyone urinating against a wall,*+ a helpless and worthless one in Israel;*+ and I shall indeed make a clean sweep behind the house of Jer·o·boʹam,+ just as one clears away the dung until it is disposed of.+

6 “Look! It is written before me.+ I shall not keep still,+ but I will render a reward; I will even render the reward+ into their own bosom,*+