7. Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the Lord of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?
8. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and the offerings.
9. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye, even this whole nation, have robbed me.