and showing covenant faithfulness ¹  to a thousand generations ²  of those who love me and keep my commandments.

but I show covenant faithfulness ¹  to the thousands ²  who choose ³  me and keep my commandments.

You show unfailing love to thousands. ¹  But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. ²  You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all. ³ 

keeping loyal love for thousands, ¹  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression ²  of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”