Malachi 3:7-15

7“Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies. Yet you ask, “How can we return?”

8“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me!” “How do we rob you?” you ask. “By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.

9You are suffering under a curse, yet you — the whole nation — are still robbing me.

10Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

11I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not ruin the produce of your land and your vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the Lord of Armies.

12“Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Armies.

13“Your words against me are harsh,” says the Lord. Yet you ask, “What have we spoken against you?”

14You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Armies?

15So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”