Malachi 3:7–18
7 Yet from the days of pyour fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
qReturn to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
r“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’
8 “Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
sIn tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 tBring all the tithes into the ustorehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the vwindows of heaven
And wpour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 “And I will rebuke xthe devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the Lord of hosts;
12 And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be ya delightful land,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
13 “Your zwords have been 3harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 aYou have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
15 So now bwe call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are 4raised up;
They even ctempt God and go free.’ ”
16 Then those dwho feared the Lord espoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So fa book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who 5meditate on His name.
17 “They gshall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My hjewels. 6
And iI will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
18 jThen you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.