Malachi 3:6-15 - An Overflowing Blessing

⁶ Because, I, Yahweh, have not changed, therefore, ye, the sons of Jacob, have not been utterly consumed.

⁷ From the days of your fathers, have ye departed from my statutes, and not observed them, Return ye unto me, that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. And yet ye say, Wherein shall we return?

⁸ Will, a son of earth, defraud, God? Nevertheless, ye, have been defrauding me, and yet ye say, Wherein have we defrauded thee? In the tithe and the offering. ⁹ With a curse, have ye been cursing, and yet, me, have ye been defrauding, - the whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room. ¹¹ Then will I rebuke, for you, the devourer that he spoil not, for you, the fruit of the ground, - neither shall the vine in the field, be barren to you, saith Yahweh of hosts. ¹² So shall all the nations, pronounce you happy, - for, ye, shall become, a land of delight, saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹³ Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh, - and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee?

¹⁴ Ye have said, Vain is it to serve God, - and, What profit when we have kept his charge, or when we have walked gloomily before Yahweh of hosts? ¹⁵ Now, therefore, we are pronouncing happy - the proud, - and, the doers of lawlessness have, even been built up, and, they who have put God to the proof, have even been delivered.