Malachi 3:6-12
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 Certainly I, the Lord, do not change. That is why you, sons of Jacob, have not come to an end. 7 Since the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Armies.
You say, “In what way should we return?”
8 Will a man rob God? You are robbing me!
You say, “How have we robbed you?”
In regard to the tithe and the special offering.[a] 9 You are being cursed since all of you, the whole nation, are robbing me. 10 Bring the complete tithe to the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Just test me in this, says the Lord of Armies. See whether I do not open for you the windows[b] of heaven and pour down blessing on you, until there is more than enough. 11 I will restrain the devouring swarm so that it will not destroy your produce from your soil. Your vine in the field will not be without fruit, says the Lord of Armies. 12 All the nations will call you blessed, because you will be a delightful land, says the Lord of Armies.
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- Malachi 3:8 Or the elevated offering
- Malachi 3:10 Or floodgates
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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