Ezekiel 16 · Verse 59

Ezekiel 16:59

For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:59, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:59 in other translations

BSBFor this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
WEB“‘For the Lord GOD says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
ASVFor thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
YLTFor thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath--to break covenant.
DARBYFor thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant.
BBEFor this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.
WebsterFor thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

What does Ezekiel 16:59 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
59. the oath--the covenant between God and Israel (De 29:12, 14). As thou hast despised it, so will I despise thee. No covenant is one-sided; where Israel broke faith, God's promise of favor ceased.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 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.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Ezekiel 16:59 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֣יkithatH3588
כֹ֤הkhohthusH3541
אָמַר֙'a.Marhe saysH559
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהוִ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3069
וְעָשִׂ֥יתִיve.'a.sitand I will deal withH6213
אוֹתָ֖ךְ'o.Takhwith youH854
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רka.'a.Sherjust asH834
עָשִׂ֑ית'a.Sityou have doneH6213
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-[you] whoH834
בָּזִ֥יתba.Zityou despisedH959
אָלָ֖ה'a.Lahan oathH423
לְהָפֵ֥רle.ha.Ferby breakingH6565
בְּרִֽית\׃be.Rita covenantH1285

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 16:59

  • Ezekiel 17:19

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

  • Isaiah 24:5

    The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

  • Deuteronomy 29:10-15

    Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. …

  • Jeremiah 31:32

    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

  • Ezekiel 17:13-16

    And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

  • Matthew 7:1-2

    Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:31-32

    And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

  • Ezekiel 7:8-9

    Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.

  • Romans 2:8-9

    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

  • Isaiah 3:11

    Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • Jeremiah 2:19

    Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

  • Jeremiah 22:9

    Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.
7:4,8,9; 14:4; Isa 3:11; Jer 2:19; Mt 7:1,2; Ro 2:8,9
which.
17:13-16; Ex 24:1-8; De 29:10-15,25; 2Ch 34:31,32; Isa 24:5
Jer 22:9; 31:32

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Context

  • Ezekiel 16:58

    Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 16:59

    For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

  • 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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Ezekiel 16:59 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero así ha dicho el Señor Jehová: ¿Haré yo contigo como tú hiciste, que menospreciaste el juramento para invalidar el pacto?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel: Je te ferai comme tu as fait, toi qui as méprisé le serment et rompu l’alliance.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn so spricht der Herr, Jehova: Ja, ich will dir tun, so wie du getan, die du den Eid verachtet und den Bund gebrochen hast -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Et faciam tibi sicut despexisti juramentum, ut irritum faceres pactum: