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59 For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you for what you did; you despised an oath by breaking a covenant.(A) 60 But I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young; I will set up an everlasting covenant[a] with you.(B) 61 Then you shall remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, those older and younger than you; I give them to you as daughters, but not by reason of your covenant.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:60 Everlasting covenant: Ezekiel foresees God renewing the covenant of Sinai in a new and spirit-empowered way that will not be fatally broken as in the present exile or force God to abandon Israel again; cf. 11:19–21; 36:25–27; 37:26–28.

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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