Malachi 3:7-18

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ “From the ^(A)days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. ^(B)Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

You Have Robbed God

⁸ “Will a man ^[a]rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In ^(C)tithes and ^[b]offerings. ⁹ You are ^(D)cursed with a curse, for you are ^[c]robbing Me, the whole nation of you! ^10 (E)Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be ^[d]food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not ^(F)open for you the windows of heaven and ^(G)pour out for you a blessing until ^[e](H)it overflows. ¹¹ Then I will rebuke the ^(I)devourer for you, so that it will not ^[f]destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts. ¹² “^(J)All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a ^(K)delightful land,” says the Lord of hosts.

¹³ “Your words have been ^[g]arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ ¹⁴ You have said, ‘It is ^(L)vain to serve God; and what ^(M)profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts? ¹⁵ So now we ^(N)call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and ^(O)escape.’”

The Book of Remembrance

¹⁶ Then those who ^[h]feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord ^(P)gave attention and heard it, and a ^(Q)book of remembrance was written before Him for those who ^[i]fear the Lord and who esteem His name. ¹⁷ “They will be ^(R)Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the ^(S)day that I ^[j]prepare My ^[k](T)own possession, and I will ^[l]spare them as a man ^[m](U)spares his own son who serves him.” ¹⁸ So you will again ^(V)distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.