15 If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,
16 ‘Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
17 “So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:
18 The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.
19 Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”
20 The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested.
21 Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,