God’s Word Translation
Malachi 1:5
5You will see these things with your own eyes and say, ‘Even outside the borders of Israel the Lord is great.’
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 hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert. 4“The descendants of Esau may say, ‘We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.’ “Yet, this is what the Lord of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called ‘the Wicked Land’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is always angry.’ You will see these things with your own eyes and say, ‘Even outside the borders of Israel the Lord is great.’ 6“This is what the Lord of Armies says: A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. So if I am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is my respect? You priests despise my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7“You offer contaminated food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘Then how have we contaminated you?’ “When you say that the Lord’s table may be despised.
Read all of Malachi 1Malachi 1:5 word by word
וְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְאֶ֑ינָה וְאַתֶּ֤ם תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לִגְב֥וּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Malachi 1:5
- Deuteronomy 4:3With your own eyes you saw what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed everyone among you who worshiped the god Baal while you were at Peor.
- Deuteronomy 11:7You saw with your own eyes all these spectacular things that the Lord did.
- Joshua 24:7When your ancestors cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians. He made the sea flow back and cover them. You saw for yourselves what I did to Egypt. Then you lived in the desert for a long time.
- 1 Samuel 12:16Now then, stand still and watch this great thing the Lord is going to do right before your eyes.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8So the Lord was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. He made them something that shocks and terrifies people and that people ridicule, as you can see with your own eyes.
- Luke 10:23He turned to his disciples in private and said to them, “How blessed you are to see what you’ve seen.
- Psalms 35:26Let those who gloat over my downfall be thoroughly put to shame and confused. Let those who promote themselves at my expense be clothed with shame and disgrace.
- Psalms 58:10Righteous people will rejoice when they see ⌞God⌟ take revenge. They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
- Psalms 83:17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace
- Ezekiel 38:16You will attack my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In the days to come, I will let you attack my land so that nations will know me. I will use you for my holy purpose as they watch.
- Ezekiel 39:21“I will show my greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I will turn my power against them to punish 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
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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
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