6. For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
8. Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein 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 store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts.
12. And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.
13. Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. 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 Jehovah of hosts?
15. And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
16. Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
17. And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.