¹⁸ You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them,^(A) great and mighty God^(B) whose name is the Lord of Armies, ¹⁹ the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men^[a] in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.^(C)

²⁹ Your Majesty, while you were in your bed, thoughts came to your mind about what will happen in the future.^[a](A) The revealer of mysteries^(B) has let you know what will happen.

¹¹ “My name will be great among the nations,^(A) from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense^[a] and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,”^[b] says the Lord of Armies.