Malachi 1:5

THE MESSAGE

"Yes, take a good look. Then you'll see how faithfully I've loved you and you'll want even more, saying, ‘May God be even greater, beyond the borders of Israel!'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond the borders of Israel.’

Hebrew Names Version
Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The LORD is great -- even beyond the border of Yisra'el!"

King James Version (1611)
And your eyes shall see, and yee shall say; The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.

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

English Standard Version
Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!"

New American Standard Bible
And your eyes will see this, and you will say, "The LORD be exalted beyond the border of Israel!"

New Century Version
You will see these things with your own eyes. And you will say, ‘The Lord is great, even outside the borders of Israel!'"

Amplified Bible
Your own eyes will see this and you will say, "The LORD is great and shall be magnified beyond the border of Israel!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And your eyes shall see it, and yee shall say, The Lorde will be magnified vpon the border of Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your eyes will see this and you will say, "The LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel!"

Legacy Standard Bible
And your eyes will see this, and you will say, "Yahweh be magnified beyond the territory of Israel!"

Berean Standard Bible
You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, 'The LORD is great-even beyond the borders of Israel.'"

Contemporary English Version
Israel, when you see this, you will shout, "The Lord 's great reputation reaches beyond our borders."

Complete Jewish Bible
You will see it and say, ‘ Adonai is great, even beyond the borders of Isra'el.'"

Darby Translation
And your eyes shall see [it], and ye shall say, Jehovah is magnified beyond the border of Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
You people saw these things, and you said, "The Lord is great, even outside of Israel!"

George Lamsa Translation
And your eyes shall see it, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

Good News Translation
The people of Israel are going to see this with their own eyes, and they will say, "The Lord is mighty even outside the land of Israel!"

Lexham English Bible
Your eyes will see this, and you will say, "Yahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel."

Literal Translation
And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, Jehovah will be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

American Standard Version
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say: 'The LORD is great beyond the border of Israel.'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And your eyes shall see: and you shal say, The Lorde wylbe magnified vpon the borders of Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified upon the borders of Israel.

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

World English Bible
Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great -- even beyond the border of Israel!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And youre iyen schulen se, and ye schulen seie, The Lord be magnefied on the terme of Israel.

Update Bible Version
And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, May Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

New English Translation
Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified even beyond the border of Israel!'"

New King James Version
Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, "The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.'

New Living Translation
When you see the destruction for yourselves, you will say, ‘Truly, the Lord 's greatness reaches far beyond Israel's borders!'"

New Life Bible
You will see this with your own eyes and say, "The Lord is great even outside the land of Israel!"

New Revised Standard
Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your own eyes, shall see, - and, ye yourselves, shall say, Yahweh, be magnified, beyond the boundary of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And your eyes shall see: and you shall say: The Lord be magnified upon the border of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the LORD, beyond the border of Israel!"

Young's Literal Translation
And your eyes do see, and ye say, `Magnified is Jehovah beyond the border of Israel,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Youre eyes haue sene it, ad ye youre selues must confesse, that ye LORDE hath brought the londe of Israel to greate honoure.

Contextual Overview

¹ A Message. God 's Word to Israel through Malachi: ² God said, "I love you." You replied, "Really? How have you loved us?" "Look at history" (this is God 's answer). "Look at how differently I've treated you, Jacob, from Esau: I loved Jacob and hated Esau. I reduced pretentious Esau to a molehill, turned his whole country into a ghost town." ⁴ When Edom (Esau) said, "We've been knocked down, but we'll get up and start over, good as new," God -of-the-Angel-Armies said, "Just try it and see how far you get. When I knock you down, you stay down. People will take one look at you and say, ‘Land of Evil!' and ‘the God -cursed tribe!' ⁵ "Yes, take a good look. Then you'll see how faithfully I've loved you and you'll want even more, saying, ‘May God be even greater, beyond the borders of Israel!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.

Genesis 8:22
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

Psalms 104:20
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !

1 Corinthians 3:13
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.

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.