3:10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse 7 so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all. 3:11 Then I will stop the plague 8 from ruining your crops, 9 and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the Lord who rules over all. 3:12 “All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in 10 a delightful land,” says the Lord who rules over all.
3:13 “You have criticized me sharply,” 11 says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’ 3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 12 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 13 3:15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. 14 In fact, those who challenge 15 God escape!’”
3:16 Then those who respected 16 the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. 17 A scroll 18 was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name. 3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. 19 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. 3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between 20 the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.