Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:60

60 Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the dayes of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

The Lord having denounced a perpetual punishment to the stubborn, impenitent body of the Jewish nation, he doth now promise to the remnant, that they shall be remembred and obtain covenanted mercy, which makes up the last part of the chapter.

Properly neither remembering, or forgetting is in God, who is omniscient, but after the manner of man this is spoken of God, who is said to remember, when he makes it appear that he hath regard to us, as Psal. 20.3. and blesseth us.

In which I promised I would not utterly cast off the seed of Israel, nor fail to send the Messiah, the Redeemer who should turn away iniquity from Iacob.

In the loynes of Abraham, and solemnly renewed after their coming out of Egypt, which is the time, called the dayes of thy youth, Isaiah 44.2. and 46.3. and Ezek. 16.43.

Confirm and ratifie, it shall be sure, and unfailing.

Everlasting, i. e. of a very long continuance, as to that part of the Covenant which respecteth their condition in the Land of Promise or Canaan, but in what is spirituall, and containeth heavenly things it shall be absolutely everlasting, Ier. 31.31, 32, 33, 34.