Malachi 1:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹This is an oracle, the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi: ²"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you ask, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved, ³but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals." ⁴Though Edom may say, "We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins," this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people toward whom the LORD is indignant forever. ⁵You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, 'The LORD is great-even beyond the borders of Israel.'"

Bible Verse Review
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your: Deuteronomy 4:3, Deuteronomy 11:7, Joshua 24:7, 1 Samuel 12:16, 2 Chronicles 29:8, Luke 10:23, Luke 10:24

The Lord: Psalms 35:26, Psalms 35:27, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11, Psalms 83:17, Psalms 83:18, Ezekiel 38:16, Ezekiel 38:23, Ezekiel 39:21, Ezekiel 39:22

from: or, upon, Heb. from upon

Reciprocal: Joshua 23:3 - And ye Psalms 52:6 - righteous Psalms 91:8 - Only Ezekiel 39:9 - shall go Obadiah 1:19 - the south Micah 7:10 - mine

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.

Genesis 1:13
And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.

Genesis 1:19
And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."

Psalms 19:2
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalms 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And your eyes shall see,.... The destruction of the Edomites, and their fruitless attempts to rebuild their desolate places; and the difference between them and the Israelites, who were returned to their own land, and inherited it, when they could not; and the love of God to the one, and his hatred of the other:

and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel; Aben Ezra interprets it, ye that dwelt in the border of Israel shall say, the Lord shall be magnified, or let him be magnified; let greatness and glory be ascribed to him for what he has done: or, as Kimchi, give him praise and greatness because you are dwelling in your border, and their border is desolate; and your border is called the border of Israel, but theirs the border of wickedness; and so the Targum,

"let the glory of the Lord be multiplied, because he hath enlarged the border of Israel;''

and, according to Jarchi, the sense is, he shall show his greatness from our border, to make it known that we are his people: all show and own that God had loved them more than others, and therefore they ought to have honoured and obeyed him, in which they were deficient, and so ungrateful.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And your eyes shall see - Malicious pleasure in looking on at the misery of Judaea and Jerusalem, had been a special sin of Edom: now God would show Judah the fruit of its reversal, and His goodness toward themselves. , “Ye have assurance of His love toward you and providence over you, when ye see that ye are returned to your own land, and can inhabit it, but they cannot do this: but “they build and I throw down,” and ye, therefore, praise and magnify My name for this, and ye shall say, “The Lord shall be magnified on the border of Israel, i. e., His greatness shall be always manifest upon you;” high above and exalted over the border of Israel which shall retain its name, while Edom shall have ceased to be. Wickedness gives its name to Edom’s border, as in Zechariah’s vision it was removed and settled in Babylon Zechariah 5:8, Zechariah 5:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 1:5. Your eyes — Ye Israelites shall see, in your succeeding generations, that -

The Lord will be magnified — By his kindness in Israel, and his judgments beyond.