⁸Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: ‘In what have we deceived Thee?’ The tithe and the heave-offering! ⁹With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it. ¹⁰Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space. ¹¹And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts. ¹²And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹³Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: ‘What have we spoken against Thee?’ ¹⁴Ye have said, ‘A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts? ¹⁵And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.’

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