From the days of your fathers, ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them: [a]return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts: but ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Will a [b]man spoil his gods? yet have ye spoiled me: but ye say, Wherein have we spoiled thee? In [c]tithes and offerings.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have spoiled me, even this whole nation.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:7 Read Zech. 1:3.
  2. Malachi 3:8 There are none of the heathen so barbarous, that will defraud their gods of their honor, or deal deceitfully with them.
  3. Malachi 3:8 Whereby the service of God should have been maintained, and the Priests and the poor relieved.

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