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The Book of Malachi, Chapter 3, Verse 9

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Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
King James Version
Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
American Standard Version
Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
New English Translation
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty.
World English Bible
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob 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.
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For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.