Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 16:60

"Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant." — Ezekiel 16:60 (ASV)

The promise of restoration must have sounded almost as strange as the threat of punishment, including as it did those whom Judah hated and despised (Ezekiel 16:61). The covenant of restoration was not to be like the old covenant. Not by your covenant, but by My covenant. The people’s covenant was the pledge of obedience. That had been found ineffectual. But the covenant of God was by promise (Galatians 3:17).