5 And I will come near to you to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false. swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the LORD of hosts 6 For I am the LORD I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the LORD of hosts But ye said Wherein shall we return
8 Will a man rob God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings 9 Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole nation 10 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 11 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 12 And all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land saith the LORD of hosts
13 Your words have been stout against me saith the LORD Yet ye say What have we spoken so much against thee 14 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 15 And now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt God are even delivered
16 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 17 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 18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not
