Malachi 3:6-15 - An Overflowing Blessing

⁶ "For I, Yahweh, have not changed, and you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

⁷ From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my rules, and have not kept [them]! Return to me and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts, "but you say, 'How shall we return?'

⁸ Will a human [dare to] rob God? Yet you [are] robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions! ⁹ You [are] being cursed with curse, for you [are] robbing me, the whole nation [of you]! ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe to {the storehouse}, so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you {an overflowing blessing}. ¹¹ I will rebuke the devourer for you; it will not destroy the fruit of your soil; your vine in the field will not be unfruitful," says Yahweh of hosts. ¹² "And all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be {a land in which one takes joy}," says Yahweh of hosts.

¹³ "Your words have been harsh against me," says Yahweh. "But you say, 'How have we spoken together against you?'

¹⁴ You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"