Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great — even beyond the border of Israel!”
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- KJV And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from 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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- Deut 11:7but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
- Luke 10:23–24Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
- Ps 83:17–18Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
- Ps 35:26–27Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
- Ezek 38:16and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
- 2 Chr 29:8Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
- 1 Sam 12:16“Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
- Deut 4:3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.
- Mic 5:4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
- Ezek 38:23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Josh 24:7When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
- Ezek 39:21–22I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
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