10 Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have ^kno pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will ^lnot accept an offering from your hand.

1 ^j“Behold, I send my messenger, and ^khe will ^lprepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.