Holy Scripture

Malachi 3:8

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7 and following) Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Br…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Malachi

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Will a man insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say, Wherein have we insulted thee? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you still.

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In context

6For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:

7but ye, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: ye have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord Almighty. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

— Malachi 3:8 —

9And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.

10The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, saith the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until ye are satisfied.

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