Malachi 1:5

And your eyes shall see, 1 and ye shall say: 1 Hashem is gadol (great) even beyond the Gevul Yisroel. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

4Whereas Edom saith: 1 We are dashed to pieces, 1 but we will return and rebuild the ruins; 1 thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 They may build, but I will throw down; 1 and they shall call them, Gevul Rishah (territory of wickedness), 1 and the people against whom Hashem hath indignation ad olam (for ever). 1

6A ben honoreth his av, 1 and an eved his adon; 1 if then I be an Av, 1 where is Mine honor? 1 And if I be Adonim, 1 where is My reverence? 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os unto you, O kohanim, 1 that despise My Name. 1 But ye say: Wherein have we despised Thy name? 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:7But your eyes have seen kol ma'aseh hagadol Hashem which He did.

1 Samuel 12:16Now therefore stand and see this davar hagadol (great thing), which Hashem will make before your eyes.

Psalms 35:26Let them be put to shame and brought to confusion together 1 that gloat at mine ra'ah (disaster, distress); 1 let them be clothed with boshet (shame) and kelimah (dishonor, disgrace) 1 that exalt themselves against me. 1

Psalms 83:17Fill their faces with shame; 1 that they may seek Shimcha, Hashem. 1

Ezekiel 38:23Thus will I magnify Myself, and set Myself apart as kodesh and I will make Myself known in the eynayim of Goyim rabbim, and they shall know that I am Hashem.

Micah 5:4And this shall be Shalom. 1 When the Assyrian shall invade our land; 1 and when he shall set foot on our armenot (citadels), 1 then shall we raise against him shivah ro'im (seven shepherds), 1 and shmoneh nesikhei adam (eight leaders [tribal princes] of men). 1

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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