Ezekiel 16:59
For thus says the Lord God: “I will act toward you, just as you have despised the oath, so that you would make void the covenant.
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In Context
58You have borne your wickedness and your disgrace, says the Lord God.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:10Today, you all stand in the sight of the Lord your God: your leaders, and tribes, and those greater by birth, and teachers, all the people of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:25And they will respond: ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, which he formed with their fathers, when he led them away from the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the impious man immersed in evil! For retribution will be given to him from his own hands.
Jeremiah 2:19Your own malice will reprove you, and your own apostasy will rebuke you! But know and perceive this: it is an evil and bitter thing for you to forsake the Lord your God, and to be without my fear within you, says the Lord, the God of hosts.
Jeremiah 22:9And they will answer: ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and they adored strange gods and served them.’
Ezekiel 7:3Now the end is over you, and I will send my fury upon you. And I will judge you according to your ways. And I will place all your abominations before you.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:45-60
The Wickedness of Jerusalem; Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 593.) 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy… Read the whole commentary →