Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord 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] (3:10)

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts (3:11)

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts (3:12)

Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? (3:13)

Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? (3:14)

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered (3:15)

Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. (3:16) com1

And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (3:17)

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (3:18)

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