Malachi 1:5

Malachi 1:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.
• New International Version (NIV)You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’

Context of Malachi 1:5

3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” 4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever. You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’” 6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ 7By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

Malachi 1:5 word by word

וְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְאֶ֑ינָה וְאַתֶּ֤ם תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לִגְב֥וּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

• You will see thisרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• with your own eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• and you yourselvesאַתֶּם'attâh 'attâ 'ath 'attîy 'attem 'atten 'attênâh 'attênnâh · you(m.p.)H859
• will sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• The LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• is greatגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• even beyondעַל‛al · uponH5921
• the bordersגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478

Cross-references for Malachi 1:5

• Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
• Deuteronomy 11:7For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
• Joshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
• 1 Samuel 12:16Now, therefore, present yourselves and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes.
• 2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
• Luke 10:23Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
• Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
• Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
• Psalms 83:17May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
• Ezekiel 38:16You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
• Ezekiel 39:21I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.

Commentaries on Malachi 1:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Your eyes - Ye Israelites shall see, in your succeeding generations, that: - The Lord will be magnified - By his kindness in Israel, and his judgments beyond.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5And your eyes shall see - Malicious pleasure in looking on at the misery of Judaea and Jerusalem, had been a special sin of Edom: now God would show Judah the fruit of its reversal, and His goodness toward themselves., “Ye have assurance of His love toward you and providence over you, when ye see that ye are returned to your own land, and can inhabit it, but they cannot do this: but “they build and I throw down,” and ye, therefore, praise and magnify My…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-5Malachi’s sermons use a literary form called disputation (a structured argument). This form sounds like a courtroom scene and gives the message the tone of a trial. In the first disputation, the prophet states the central truth that God loves Israel (Malachi 1:2). After this, the prophet challenges the people and responds to their objections. He develops this main claim through five additional messages that follow.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. from the border of Israel--Ye, restored to your own "borders" in Israel, "from" them shall raise your voices to "magnify the Lord," acknowledging that Jehovah has shown to you a gratuitous favor not shown to Edom, and so ought to be especially "magnified from the borders of Israel."Read the comment

Topics related to Malachi 1:5

• Edomites

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Malachi, Prophecies of
• Malachi
• Nabataeans; Nabathaeans
• Obadiah, Book of

Commentaries on Malachi 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings