Ezekiel 16:60
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.


English Standard Version
yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.


New American Standard Bible
"Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.


King James Bible
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.


International Standard Version
"'Meanwhile, as for me, I'll remember my covenant with you from when you were young, because I'll establish an eternal covenant with you.


American Standard Version
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.


Darby Bible Translation
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.


Young's Literal Translation
And I -- I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.


Commentaries
16:59-63 After a full warning of judgments, mercy is remembered, mercy is reserved. These closing verses are a precious promise, in part fulfilled at the return of the penitent and reformed Jews out of Babylon, but to have fuller accomplishment in gospel times. The Divine mercy should be powerful to melt our hearts into godly sorrow for sin. Nor will God ever leave the sinner to perish, who is humbled for his sins, and comes to trust in His mercy and grace through Jesus Christ; but will keep him by his power, through faith unto salvation.

60. The promise here bursts forth unexpectedly like the sun from the dark clouds. With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace. Contrast "I will remember," with "thou hast not remembered" (Eze 16:22, 43); also "My covenant," with "Thy covenant" (Eze 16:61; Ps 106:45); then the effect produced on her is (Eze 16:63) "that thou mayest remember." God's promise was one of promise and of grace. The law, in its letter, was Israel's (thy) covenant, and in this restricted view was long subsequent (Ga 3:17). Israel interpreted it as a covenant of works, which she while boasting of, failed to fulfil, and so fell under its condemnation (2Co 3:3, 6). The law, in its spirit, contains the germ of the Gospel; the New Testament is the full development of the Old, the husk of the outer form being laid aside when the inner spirit was fulfilled in Messiah. God's covenant with Israel, in the person of Abraham, was the reason why, notwithstanding all her guilt, mercy was, and is, in store for her. Therefore the heathen or Gentile nations must come to her for blessings, not she to them.

everlasting covenant—(Eze 37:26; 2Sa 23:5; Isa 55:3). The temporary forms of the law were to be laid aside, that in its permanent and "everlasting" spirit it might be established (Jer 31:31-37; 32:40; 50:4, 5; Heb 8:8-13).

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