Malachi 3:8–15

⁸Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

⁹And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.

¹⁰Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance.

¹¹And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he shall not spoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the vine in the field be barren, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹²And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹³Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

¹⁵Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.