Malachi 3:8–15

⁸“Will a man ¹rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In ^atithes and ²contributions.

⁹“You are ^acursed with a curse, for you are ¹robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

¹⁰“^aBring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be ¹food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says Yahweh of hosts, “if I will not ^bopen for you the windows of heaven and ^cempty out for you a blessing until ^2dit is beyond enough.

¹¹“Then I will rebuke the ^adevourer for you so that it will not corrupt the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field ¹fail to bear,” says Yahweh of hosts.

¹²“^aSo all the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a ^bdelightful land,” says Yahweh of hosts.

Arrogant Words

¹³“Your words have been strong against Me,” says Yahweh. “But you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

¹⁴“You have said, ‘It is ^aworthless to serve God; and what ^bgain is it that we have kept His charge and that we have walked in mourning before Yahweh of hosts?

¹⁵‘So now we ^acall the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and ^bescape.’”