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All nations shall call you happy; for you shall be a delightful land, says Yahweh of Hosts.
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Blessing Follows Obedience
Commentators like John Calvin emphasize that this promise is conditional, directly linked to the blessings and curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28. The declaration of being a 'delightsome land' is not automatic; it is the result of the people's repentance and return to faithful obedience, as called for in the preceding verses. God's blessing follows their renewed commitment.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
All nations shall call you blessed - The promise goes beyond the temporal prosperity of their immediate obedience. Few could know or think m…
19th Century
Anglican
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 3:18).
Baptist
God is able, simply with a turn of his hand, or a glance of his eye, to enrich or to impoverish. He gives in a thousand ways that we cannot control…
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16th Century
Protestant
This verse is taken from the law, in which, among other things, God promises such a happy state to His chosen people that the nations themselves wo…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And all nations shall call you blessed When they shall see the land freed from the devouring locust, and other hurtf…
The men of that generation turned away from God. They had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, How shall we …
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