And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great — even beyond the border of Israel!”
- BSB You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”
- NKJV Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’
- NASB And your eyes will see this, and you will say, “The Lord be exalted beyond the border of Israel!”
- NLT When you see the destruction for yourselves, you will say, ‘Truly, the Lord’s greatness reaches far beyond Israel’s borders!’”
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Quick answer
Israel will witness God's dealings with Edom and be moved to confess that the LORD is great beyond their own borders.
Overview
God's acts in history are meant to renew Israel's confidence in His love and greatness. Seeing His justice on Edom, the people are called to acknowledge that His sovereign rule extends over all nations, not Israel alone. This anticipates the gospel's universal scope, in which God's greatness is declared among every people through Christ.
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Cross-references · 13
- Deut 11:7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
- Luke 10:23–24And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
- Ps 83:17–18Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
- Ps 35:26–27Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Ezek 38:16And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
- 2 Chr 29:8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
- 1 Sam 12:16Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
- Deut 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
- Mic 5:4And he shall stand and feed 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.
- Ezek 38:23Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Josh 24:7And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
- Ezek 39:21–22And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
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