9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the Lord of Hosts, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
11 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 its time in the field,” says the Lord of Hosts.
12 “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Hosts.
13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’