Malachi 1:5

And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. AND YOUR EYES SHALL SEE, AND YE SHALL SAY, THE LORD WILL BE MAGNIFIED FROM THE BORDER OF ISRAEL. Ye, restored to your own "borders" in Israel, "from" them shall raise your voices to "magnify the Lord," acknowledging that Yahweh, as He has shown to you a gratuitous favour not shown to Edom, ought therefore to be specially "magnified from the borders of Israel....

He adds, _Your eyes shall see_. The Jews had already begun in part to witness this spectacle, but the Prophet speaks here of what was to continue. _See _then _shall your eyes_; that is, “As it has already appeared of what avail gratuitous election has been to you, by which I have chosen you as my people, and as ye have also seen on the other hand how it has been with your relations the Edomites, because they had been rejected in the person of their father Esau; so also this same difference shall ever be evident to you in their posterity: _see _then _shall your eyes _ _And ye shall say, Magnified let Jehovah be over the border of Israel_; that is, “The event itself will extort this confession, — that I greatly enhance my goodness towards you.” For though tokens of God’s grace shone forth everywhere, and the earth, as the Psalmist says, is full of his goodness, (Psalms 104:24;) yet there

1-5 All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one to differ from another. All the evils sinners feel and fear, are the just recompence of their crimes, while all their hopes and comforts are from the unmerited mercy of the Lord. He chose his people that they might be holy. If we love him, it is because he has first loved us; yet we all are prone to undervalue the mercies of God, and to excuse our own offences....

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_....

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,...

EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:9 Part I. REPROOF OF THE PRIESTS FOR NEGLECT OF DIVINE SERVICE. MALACHI 1:1 § 1_. Heading and author. _THE BURDEN (Zechariah 9:1; Zechariah 12:1; see note on Nahum 1:1). The word of the Lord is heavy and full of threats, but, as St. Jerome notes, it is also consolatory, because it is not "against" but to Israel. By this name the whole covenanted nation is designated, here, perhaps, wi

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, ac...

YAHWEH'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. This truth is questioned by some of the prophet's contemporaries, who are then reminded of the contrasted fortunes of the nations descended from Jacob and Esau. These peoples (Israel and Edom), sprung from twin brothers, and occupying adjacent lands, might have been expected to share equally in Yahweh's favour, but the recent desolation of Edom (probably by the Nabatean Arabs, who drove the Edomites away from their old territory to the district S. of Judah, hence called Idumæ a) shows that Yahweh metes out differential treatment. He will frustrate any attempt on Edom's part to reoccupy its former territory, and men will recognise that Yahweh is great, not only in Israel, but beyond it. The reason for this disparate action is found in the different religious temperaments of the two peoples, which perpetuate those of their eponyms. Edom reproduced the profanity of...

Malachi 1:2-5. Introductory Appeal These verses form an exordium to the whole Book. The ungrateful disposition of the people and the unchanging love of God are in view in all that follows....

_GOD CONTINUED TO LOVE HIS PEOPLE -- MALACHI 1:1-5:_ The Jews had become disobedient in their sacrifices and in their living. Malachi pictured the fact that God continued to love them even in their rebellion. All that we know about Malachi is that he is God's prophet. His message is a very strong message of repentance. Malachi is the practical prophet writing about daily things like sacrificial worship, the work of the priests, marriage and divorce, tithing, and the coming of the Redeemer. Many of the things in Malachi correspond to the events described by Nehemiah. Malachi likely added to the work started by Nehemiah. Malachi used questions and answers as a great way of teaching God's message. This was a heavy message because it was described as "The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi." (Ma