Malachi 1:5

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

Revised Version 1895

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, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down: and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

6A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:7but your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.

1 Samuel 12:16Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and confounded together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 83:17Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish:

Ezekiel 38:23And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Micah 5:4And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto 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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