6 “Because I, the Lord, have not changed,ao you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.J,ap

ROBBING GOD

7 “Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them.aq Return to me,ar and I will return to you,”as says the Lord of Armies.

Yet you ask, “How can we return?”

8 “Will a man robat God? Yet you are robbing me!”

“How do we rob you?” you ask.

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.au 9 You are suffering under a curse, yetK you—the whole nation—are still robbing me. 10 Bring the full tenth into the storehouseav so that there may be food in my house.aw Test me in this way,”ax says the Lord of Armies. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heavenay and pour out a blessing for you without measure.az 11 I will rebuke the devourerL,ba for you, so that it will not ruin the produce of your land and your vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the Lord of Armies. 12 “Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Armies.