The closing paragraph of this interesting chapter is the divine
assurance that the covenant made in the days of Israel's youth is to be
remembered.
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of
thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give
them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. And I will
establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord; that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God (verses 60-63).
The covenant will be remembered and established as an everlasting
covenant. Then Jerusalem will receive the elder and younger sister,
Samaria and Sodom, not as sisters, but as daughters. They will be added
in the coming days of blessing to Jerusalem. This, however, will not be
done "by thy covenant," which means the law covenant but by "His
covenant," the covenant of promise and of grace (xvi:8). "And I will
establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord." Of this great restoration and blessing in store for Jerusalem we
shall hear much in the closing visions of Ezekiel.