6For I the LORD do not change, and you sons of Jacob have not come to an end.7From the days of your fathers you turned aside from my statutes and did not keep them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts. Yet you say, How shall we return?8Does a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In the tithe and the contribution.9You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation.10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me now in this, says the LORD of Hosts: if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out for you a blessing until there is no more need.11I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground, and your vine in the field will not fail to bear, says the LORD of Hosts.12Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of Hosts.13Your words have been strong against me, says the LORD. But you say, What have we said against you?14You have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is there that we have kept his charge and walked mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?15Now therefore we call the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but also test God and escape.16Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who fear the LORD and esteem his name.17They shall be mine, says the LORD of Hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.18You shall again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.