⁶ For I, LORD, do not change. Therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

⁷ From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. ⁹ Ye are cursed with the curse, for ye rob me, even this whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, says LORD of hosts, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, nor shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says LORD of hosts. ¹² And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightful land, says LORD of hosts.

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.