If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.

But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”