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Malachi 1:5
5You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’
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.
- 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.’
- New Living Translation (NLT)When you see the destruction for yourselves, you will say, ‘Truly, the Lord’s greatness reaches far beyond Israel’s borders!’”
Context of Malachi 1:5
3but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” 4Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord. You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’ 6“A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’ 7“By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible.
Read all of Malachi 1Malachi 1:5 word by word
וְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְאֶ֑ינָה וְאַתֶּ֤ם תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לִגְב֥וּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Malachi 1:5
- Deuteronomy 4:3You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,
- Deuteronomy 11:7But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.
- Joshua 24:7But they cried to the Lord for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
- 1 Samuel 12:16“Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!
- 2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore, the anger of the Lord has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
- Luke 10:23Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
- Psalms 35:26May all who gloat over my distress be put to shame and confusion; may all who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.
- Psalms 58:10The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Psalms 83:17May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
- Ezekiel 38:16You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 39:21“I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on 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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