²² The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(A) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(B) with blight^(C) and mildew, which will plague^(D) you until you perish.^(E)

¹⁷ I struck all the work of your hands^(A) with blight,^(B) mildew and hail,^(C) yet you did not return^(D) to me,’ declares the Lord.^(E)

⁹ You are under a curse^(A)—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe^(B) into the storehouse,^(C) that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates^(D) of heaven and pour out^(E) so much blessing^(F) that there will not be room enough to store it.^{(G) 11} I will prevent pests from devouring^(H) your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,^(I)” says the Lord Almighty.