I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

An Everlasting Covenant

Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath, breaking the covenant,

yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.

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

I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,

He took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (he had taken away the chief men of the land),

so that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up and that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?

As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king resides who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant with him he broke—in Babylon he shall die.

Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.

I will make you pass under the staff and will bring you within the bond of the covenant.

I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will bless them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.

in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant with all your abominations.