Malachi 1:5

Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, ‘the Lord’s greatness reaches beyond the border of Israel.’”

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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

4When Edom says, ‘We are beaten down, but we will return and rebuild the ruined places’” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will throw down. They will be called, ‘The border land of wickedness,’ the people against whom the Lord is angry forever.

6“A son honors his father and servant their master. If I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the one who fears me? So says the Lord to you, priests who despise my name. You ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’

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Cross References

Psalms 35:26Shame and confusion together on those who rejoice at my hurt! Clothed with shame and dishonor be those who are haughty to me!

Psalms 83:17Everlasting shame and confusion, disgrace and destruction be theirs.

Micah 5:4And he will stand and shepherd by the strength of the Lord, In the exalted name of the Lord his God; And they will live in security, for now he will be great, even 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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