KJVNevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
And I--I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
The allegory which runs through this chapter is by no means an unusual one in the Prophets. The beginning of Ezekiel 16:3 has occasioned some variety of remark. OEcolampadius takes mkvrh, mekoreh, meaning "birth," "origin," for mgvrh, megoreh, meaning "dwelling;" as Calvin translates it habitationes. Houbigant derives it from krh,…