Thou shewest loving kindnesse unto thousands] Exodus 20:6. & Exodus 34:7. Deuteronomy 5:10.
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers] Punishing the parents oft in their posterity; though not faultlesse themselves; (as those wicked wretches pretended, Chap. 31. 29.) but deserving for their own sinne as much as God inflicteth on them. See Joshua 7:15; Joshua 7:24.
into the bosome] Or, lap. Proverbs 16:31. Repayest it plentifully at last; though it seem long a comming. See Isaiah 65:7.
of their children after them] Even when they are dead and gone. 1 Samuel 2:36. 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel 8:2 Kings 5:27. & 2 Kings 24:3. God for a monument of his wrath, and example to others, punishing their sinnes in their posteritie, in whom also they oft continue, as well as Gods judgements upon them for the same. See Chap. 15. 4.
the great] Psalms 145:3. Titus 2:13.
the mighty God] Isaiah 9:6.
the LORD of hosts is his name] Or, whose name is. Chap. 31. 35. & 48. 15. Amos 4:13.