Malachi 3:6-12
American Standard Version
6 For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7 From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and [a]offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.
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- Malachi 3:8 Hebrew heave-offerings.
Malachi 3:6-12
Lexham English Bible
An Overflowing Blessing
6 “For I, Yahweh, have not changed,[a] and you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.[b] 7 From the days of your ancestors[c] you have turned aside from my rules, and have not kept[d] them! Return to me and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of hosts, “but you say, ‘How shall we return?’
8 Will a human dare to rob God? Yet you are robbing me! And you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In the tithes and the contributions! 9 You are being cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you! 10 Bring the whole tithe to the storehouse,[e] so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this,” says Yahweh of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you an overflowing blessing.[f] 11 I will rebuke the devourer[g] for you; it will not destroy the fruit of your soil; your vine in the field will not be unfruitful,” says Yahweh of hosts. 12 “And all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be a land in which one takes joy,”[h] says Yahweh of hosts.
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- Malachi 3:6 Or “I do not change”
- Malachi 3:6 Or “are not destroyed”
- Malachi 3:7 Or “fathers”
- Malachi 3:7 Or “observed”
- Malachi 3:10 Hebrew “the house of the treasure”
- Malachi 3:10 Literally, “a blessing up to not enough”
- Malachi 3:11 NRSV, JPS interpret this word as “locust”
- Malachi 3:12 Literally “a land of desire”
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