Yehezkiel 16:60

16:60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting ¹  covenant with you.

Yehezkiel 37:26

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ²  I will establish them, ³  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

Yehezkiel 20:37

20:37 I will make you pass under ⁴  the shepherd’s staff, ⁵  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Yehezkiel 16:62

16:62 I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 17:14

17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Yehezkiel 17:18

17:18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note ⁶  – he gave his promise ⁷  and did all these things – he will not escape!

Yehezkiel 30:5

30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, ⁸  Libya, and the people ⁹  of the covenant land ¹⁰  will die by the sword along with them.

Yehezkiel 16:59

16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Yehezkiel 16:61

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Yehezkiel 17:13

17:13 He took one from the royal family, ¹¹  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. ¹²  He then took the leaders of the land

Yehezkiel 17:15

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ¹³  rebelled against the king of Babylon ¹⁴  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

Yehezkiel 17:19

17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him ¹⁵  for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

Yehezkiel 34:25

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely ¹⁶  in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. ¹⁷ 

Yehezkiel 16:8

16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing ¹⁸  that you had reached the age for love. ¹⁹  I spread my cloak ²⁰  over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Yehezkiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ²¹  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Yehezkiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ²²  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ²³  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

[16:60]  ¹ tn Or “eternal.”

[37:26]  ² sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

[37:26]  ³ tn Heb “give them.”

[20:37]  ⁴ tn This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.

[20:37]  ⁵ sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.

[17:18]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something.

[17:18]  ⁷ sn Heb “hand.” “Giving one’s hand” is a gesture of promise (2 Kgs 10:15).

[30:5]  ⁸ tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.

[30:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons.”

[30:5]  ¹⁰ tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).

[17:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

[17:13]  ¹² tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

[17:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “place it on his head.”

[34:25]  ¹⁶ tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).

[34:25]  ¹⁷ sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).

[16:8]  ¹⁸ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

[16:8]  ¹⁹ tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

[16:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).

[17:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “place.”

[44:7]  ²² tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ²³ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”