Discovery BoxMalachi 1:5 
Context1:5 Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified 1 even beyond the border of Israel!’”
Malachi 3:11
Context3:11 Then I will stop the plague 2 from ruining your crops, 3 and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the Lord who rules over all.
1 tn Or “Great is the
2 tn Heb “the eater” (אֹכֵל, ’okhel), a general term for any kind of threat to crops and livelihood. This is understood as a reference to a locust plague by a number of English versions: NAB, NRSV “the locust”; NIV “pests”; NCV, TEV “insects.”
3 tn Heb “and I will rebuke for you the eater and it will not ruin for you the fruit of the ground.”
