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.