Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes

6 “I the Lord do not change.x So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.y 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned awayz from my decrees and have not kept them. Returna to me, and I will return to you,”b says the Lord Almighty.

“But you ask,c ‘How are we to return?’

8 “Will a mere mortal robd God? Yet you rob me.

“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’

“In tithese and offerings. 9 You are under a cursef—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole titheg into the storehouse,h that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgatesi of heaven and pour outj so much blessingk that there will not be room enough to store it.l 11 I will prevent pests from devouringm your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,n” says the Lord Almighty. 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed,o for yours will be a delightful land,”p says the Lord Almighty.q