16:53-58
There will be severe judgement, but there will also be restoration. And the restoration applies to “Sodom and her daughters'', and to “Samaria and her daughters” and Judah. So sin is universal, salvation is also universal ( but not universalism!), But then note that one of the purposes of this is so that they will be ashamed of their sin. Part of God’s purpose is that we realise the true nature of sin, of our sin. We also see that Judah was to bear the consequences of her sin, of her lewdness, as it is put here.
16:59-63
Judah had broken the covenant with the Lord. In doing so they “despised the oath” that the Lord had made. God had promised to bless and protect them, but the people of Judah did not believe God’s promise, they did not consider it a firm foundation on which to build. We do the same when we do not trust God and run to something else instead. We are saying, in effect, that the Lord is not trustworthy. The people might be unfaithful, but God is never unfaithful and He would remember His covenant (2 Tim 2:13). So God would make an everlasting covenant with them, and He would “make atonement” for them their sins.
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