Malachi 3:12-14

Young's Literal Translation

¹² And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹³ Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?