John Gill Commentary Malachi 3:12

"And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts." — Malachi 3:12 (ASV)

And all nations shall call you blessed
When they shall see the land freed from the devouring locust, and other hurtful creatures; the former and the latter rains given in their season, and the earth yielding a large increase:

for you shall be a delightsome land, says the Lord of hosts ;
or a desirable ^F14 one; not only pleasant to themselves, being fruitful, but wished for by others, by their neighbouring nations, who, seeing their prosperity, could not but desire to dwell with them; or delightsome to the Lord of hosts: thus Jarchi interprets it, the land that I delight in; and so Aben Ezra; to which agrees the Targum,

``and all nations shall praise you, because you dwell in the land of the house of my Shechinah or majesty, and do my will in it;'' and the Syriac version renders it, "the land of my delight": see (Isaiah 62:4) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: (Upx Ura) "terra desiderabilis", V. L. Pagninus, Drusius; "terra beneplaciti", Montanus, Vatablus, Burkius; "oblectationis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.