Malachi 1:5

Translations

Modern

You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”

Traditional

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

Literal

And your eyes will see, and you will say, ‘Great is YHWH from beyond the border of Israel!’”

Latin

Et oculi vestri videbunt, et vos dicetis: Magnificetur Dominus super terminum Israël.

Original

Hebrew

English

You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”

Notes

Malachi 1:2–5

Malachi’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.

Theme notes and profiles

Esau

Events

Prophecies of Malachic. 442 BC

Related verses

Luke 10:23–24
Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
Deuteronomy 11:7
For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
Psalm 58:10–11
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Ezekiel 38:16
You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
Psalm 35:26–27
May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
Psalm 83:17–18
May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
1 Samuel 12:16
Now, therefore, present yourselves and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:8
Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
Joshua 24:7
So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
Micah 5:4
He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
Ezekiel 38:23
I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and I will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Parallels

Genesis 25:19–28 Romans 9:6–29

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Malachi, Book of

Topics

Edomites: Prophecies Concerning

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