Ezekiel 16 · Verse 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.
Ezekiel 16:60, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:60 in other translations

BSBBut I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
WEBNevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
ASVNevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
YLTAnd I--I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.
DARBYNevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
BBEBut still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.
WebsterNevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

What does Ezekiel 16:60 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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; Psa 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; Is 55:3). The temporary forms of the law were to be laid aside, that in its permanent and "everlasting" spirit it might be established (Jr 31:31-37; 32:40; 50:4, 5; He 8:8-13).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 60 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.

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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…

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Ezekiel 16:60 in the original Hebrew

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וְזָכַרְתִּ֨יve.za.khar.Tiand I will rememberH2142
אֲנִ֧י'a.NiIH589
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּרִיתִ֛יbe.ri.Ticovenant myH1285
אוֹתָ֖ךְ'o.Takhwith youH854
בִּימֵ֣יbi.Meiin [the] days ofH3117
נְעוּרָ֑יִךְne.'u.Ra.yikhyouth<s> yourH5271
וַהֲקִמוֹתִ֥יva.ha.ki.mo.Tiand I will establishH6965
לָ֖ךְlakhfor you
בְּרִ֥יתbe.Rita covenant ofH1285
עוֹלָֽם\׃o.LamperpetuityH5769

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Cross references for Ezekiel 16:60

  • Hosea 2:19-20

    And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  • Hebrews 12:24

    And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

  • Jeremiah 50:5

    They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

  • Ezekiel 16:8

    Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.

  • Leviticus 26:42

    Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  • Psalms 106:45

    And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • Jeremiah 32:38-41

    And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

  • Jeremiah 31:31-34

    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 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: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

  • Isaiah 55:3

    Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

  • Jeremiah 33:20-26

    Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, …

  • Leviticus 26:45

    But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will remember.
8; Le 26:42,45; Ne 1:5-11; Ps 105:8; 106:45; Jer 2:2; 33:20-26
Ho 2:15; Lu 1:72
I will establish.
37:26,27; Isa 55:3; 2Sa 23:5; Jer 31:31-34; 32:38-41; 50:5
Ho 2:19,20; Heb 8:10; 12:24; 13:20

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Context

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 16:61

    Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

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Ezekiel 16:60 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Antes yo tendré memoria de mi pacto que concerté contigo en los días de tu mocedad, y te confirmaré un pacto sempiterno.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais je me souviendrai de mon alliance avec toi dans les jours de ta jeunesse, et j’établirai pour toi une alliance éternelle.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Doch ich will gedenken meines Bundes mit dir in den Tagen deiner Jugend, und will dir einen ewigen Bund errichten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et recordabor ego pacti mei tecum in diebus adolescentiæ tuæ, et suscitabo tibi pactum sempiternum.