6 ^rThe Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^s“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find ^bcompassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

17 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and ^happointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.¹ But you are a God ready to forgive, ⁱgracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.