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.
Then thou shalt remember. It is God who first remembers her before she remembers Him, and her own ways before Him (Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31).
And be ashamed - the fruit of repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10-11); none please God unless those who displease themselves; a foretaste of the Gospel (Luke 18:9-14).
When thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters - (Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 60:3-4; Galatians 4:26, etc.) All the pagan nations, not merely Sodom and Samaria, are meant by "thy sisters, elder and younger." In Jerusalem first individual believers were gathered into the elect Church. From Jerusalem the Gospel went forth to gather in individuals of the Gentiles; and Jerusalem and Judah shall also be the first nation which, as such, shall be converted to Christ; and to her the other nations shall attach themselves as believers in Messiah, Jerusalem's King (Psalms 110:2; Isaiah 2:2-3). "The king's daughter" in Psalms 45:12; Psalms 45:14, is Judah; "the virgins her companions that follow her," as "the daughter of Tyre," are the nations given to her as converts, here called "daughters."
Not by thy covenant. This does not set aside the Old Testament in its spirit, but in its mere letter, on which the Jews had rested while they broke it; the latter ("thy covenant") was to give place to God's covenant of grace and promise in Christ, who "fulfilled" the law. God means, 'not that thou on thy part hast stood to the covenant, but that "I am the Lord, I change not" (Malachi 3:6) from my original love to thee in thy youth' (see Romans 3:3).