Ezekiel 16:59

59 Car ainsi a dit l'Éternel: Je te ferai comme tu as fait, toi qui as méprisé le serment, en rompant l'alliance.

Ezekiel 16:59 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:59

For thus saith the Lord God
And what he says may be depended upon as truth, and what will certainly come to pass: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done;
reward them according to their works; or execute the law of retaliation upon them; and reject them, as they had rejected him; and cast them off from being his people, since they had forsook him as their God; they being the aggressors and transgressors of the covenant, he was under no obligation by virtue of that to bless and protect them: which hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant;
the covenant at Mount Sinai; or which was made in the plains of Moab, which had an oath annexed to it, ( Deuteronomy 29:12 ) ; but by breaking the covenant, which they did by their many abominations, they despised the oath by which they were sworn to keep it; and therefore it was but just with God to do with them as they had done with him and his covenant. The words are by some rendered, "I might even deal with thee as thou hast done" ^F9 I should be justified in so doing, and you could not justly complain of me; but I will not, as follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (tyve rvak Ktwa tyvew) "ego quidem agerem tecum, quemadmodum fecisti mecum", Tigurine version.

Ezekiel 16:59 In-Context

57 Avant que ta méchanceté fût découverte, lorsque tu recevais les outrages des filles de Syrie et de tous ses alentours, des filles des Philistins qui t'insultaient de toute part, ne discourais-tu pas sur Sodome ta sœur?

58 Tu portes sur toi le fardeau de tes crimes et de tes abominations! dit l'Éternel.

59 Car ainsi a dit l'Éternel: Je te ferai comme tu as fait, toi qui as méprisé le serment, en rompant l'alliance.

60 Toutefois je me souviendrai de l'alliance que j'ai faite avec toi, dans les jours de ta jeunesse, et j'établirai en ta faveur une alliance éternelle.

61 Alors tu te souviendras de ta conduite, et tu en seras confuse, quand tu recevras tes sœurs, tant les aînées que les cadettes, et que je te les donnerai pour filles, mais non en vertu de ton alliance.