NET Bible
"You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty."
— Malachi 3:9, NET Bible
“Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.”
“Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation. ”
“You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.”
“And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.”
“You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.”
“Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.”
Resistance to the Lord through Selfishness“Since, I, the LORD, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.
From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“But you say,‘How should we return?’
Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty.
“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.
Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.