The chapter begins by portraying Jerusalem as a helpless and abandoned child. God describes the city as though it were an infant cast aside at birth, unwanted and left to die. Yet in the midst of that helplessness, the Lord Himself intervenes. In Ezekiel 16:6 the Lord declares, “And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.”
