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Ezekiel 16:59
For 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord GOD speaks through Ezekiel to Jerusalem, pronouncing judgment immediately after declaring she will bear the consequences of her lewdness and abominations.
The words — כֹּה (khoh) translates to "thus," marking the formal introduction of God's declaration, while עָשִׂיתִי ('a.sit) means "I will deal with," emphasizing the certainty of divine action.
The thread — The pattern of God responding to broken oaths runs through Isaiah 24:5, which records that people have overstepped decrees and broken covenants, and Ezekiel 17:19, where the Lord GOD vows to bring the despised oath upon its violator.
Why it lands — The text states that God will respond to Jerusalem according to her deeds because she despised the oath by breaking the covenant, requiring the reader to acknowledge that covenant violation inherently triggers corresponding divine response.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Ezekiel 17:19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
- Exodus 24:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
- Deuteronomy 29:10 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
- Deuteronomy 29:25 And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 34:31 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
- Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Jeremiah 2:19 Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 22:9 Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
- Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.