16. Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying,
17. “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you,
18. who show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, the Lord of Hosts is his name;
19. great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;