4. And the Lord will accept the offerings from Judah and Jerusalem, as it was in the past.
5. The Lord All-Powerful says, “Then I will come to you and judge you. I will be quick to testify against those who take part in evil magic, adultery, and lying under oath, those who cheat workers of their pay and who cheat widows and orphans, those who are unfair to foreigners, and those who do not respect me.
6. “I the Lord do not change. So you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
7. Since the time of your ancestors, you have disobeyed my rules and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord All-Powerful.“But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
8. “Should a person rob God? But you are robbing me.“You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’“You have robbed me in your offerings and the tenth of your crops.
9. So a curse is on you, because the whole nation has robbed me.