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Ezekiel 16:60

Ezekiel 16:60
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed,.... When covenant grace is manifested and applied, it brings persons to a sense of their sins, and to an ingenuous acknowledgment of them, with shame…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The promise of restoration must almost have sounded as strangely as the threat of punishment, including as it did those whom Judah hated and despised Eze 16:61. The covenant of restoration was not to…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I will remember my covenant - That is, the covenant I made with Abraham in the day or thy youth, when in him thou didst begin to be a nation.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 16:60-63

Here, in the close of the chapter, after a most shameful conviction of sin and a most dreadful denunciation of judgments, mercy is remembered, mercy is reserved, for those who shall come after. As was…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Lord will substitute for the old covenant which was broken an "everlasting" covenant, cf. ch. Eze 37:26; Isa 54:9-10; Isa 55:3; Jer 31:35-36; Jer 32:40; Jer 33:20-22. The covenant will be…