“For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
Here, also, God meets the false objection by which the Jews might strive with him; for whatever they were, yet God had entered into covenant with them. They might, therefore, fly to this refuge, that God had bound himself in covenant with them, since he had adopted Abraham with his seed.
Jerusalem was her mother's own child: as the Canaanites loathed their husbands and children, so she forsook the Lord and was barbarous to her own. She learned their way, trod in their steps, and loved their idols as eagerly as they did, the like mother, like daughter, not in name alone but in corruption.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 16:44-59
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,.... The covenant made with them at Sinai, quickly after they came out of Egypt, when they were, both as a body politic and ecclesiastical, in their infant state; for, as Kimchi says, all the while they were in Egypt, and until they, came into the land of Canaan, were called the...