Malachi 1:5

And your eyes see, and you say, || YHWH is magnified beyond the border of Israel,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

In Context

4Because Edom says, We have been made poor, || And we return and we build the ruins, || Thus said YHWH of Hosts: They build, and I destroy, || And [men] have called to them, || O region of wickedness, || O people whom YHWH defied for all time.

6A son honors a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] My glory? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said YHWH of Hosts to you, || O priests, despising My Name! And you have said, In what have we despised Your Name?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:7but [it is] your eyes which are seeing all the great work of YHWH which He has done.

1 Samuel 12:16Also now, station yourselves and see this great thing which YHWH is doing before your eyes;

Psalms 35:26They are ashamed and confounded together, || Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, || Who are magnifying themselves against me.

Psalms 83:17They are ashamed and troubled forever, || Indeed, they are confounded and lost.

Ezekiel 38:23And I have magnified Myself, and sanctified Myself, || And I have been known before the eyes of many nations, || And they have known that I [am] YHWH!”

Micah 5:4And He has stood and delighted in the strength of YHWH, || In the excellence of the Name of His God YHWH, || And they have remained, || For now He is great to the ends of the earth.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:2-6

Malachi God's prophets were his witnesses to his church, each in his day, for several ages, witnesses for him and his authority, witnesses against sin and sinners, attesting the true intents of God's providences in his dealings with his people then and the kind intentions of his grace concerning his church in the days of the Messiah, to whom all the prophets bore witness, for they all agreed in their testimony; and now we have only one witness more to call, and we have done with our evidence; and though he be the… Read the whole commentary →

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