Malachi 3:6-15 - An Overflowing Blessing

⁶ For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.

⁷ From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

⁸ Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. ⁹ You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. ¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. ¹¹ And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies ¹² And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

¹³ Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies? ¹⁵ And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.