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59 The Lord God proclaims: I will do to you just as you have done, despising solemn pledges and breaking covenants. 60 Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 61 And you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when in spite of your covenant I[a] take your big sisters and little sisters from you and give them back to you as daughters.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:61 LXX; MT you

59 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.(A) 60 Yet I will remember the covenant(B) I made with you in the days of your youth,(C) and I will establish an everlasting covenant(D) with you. 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed(E) when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters,(F) but not on the basis of my covenant with you.

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