4. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Adonai, as in days of antiquity and years of old.
5. “Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
6. “For I am Adonai. I do not change, So you, children of Jacob, are not consumed.
7. “From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. Yet you say: “How should we return?”
8. “Will a man rob God? For you are robbing Me!” But you say: “How have we robbed You?” “In the tithe and the offering.