Malachi 3:8–15

⁸“Should a person rob God? But you are robbing me.

“You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’

“You have robbed me in your offerings and the tenth of your crops. ⁹So a curse is on you, because the whole nation has robbed me. ¹⁰Bring to the storehouse a full tenth of what you earn so there will be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need. ¹¹I will stop the insects so they won’t eat your crops. The grapes won’t fall from your vines before they are ready to pick,” says the Lord All-Powerful. ¹²“All the nations will call you blessed, because you will have a pleasant country,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

The Lord’s Promise of Mercy

¹³The Lord says, “You have said terrible things about me.

“But you ask, ‘What have we said about you?’

¹⁴“You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. It did no good to obey his laws and to show the Lord All-Powerful that we were sorry for what we did. ¹⁵So we say that proud people are happy. Evil people succeed. They challenge God and get away with it.’ ”