“Y’all should give, and it will be given to y’all. An excellent measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure y’all use will be the measure y’all get back.”
You must give-give, and your heart must not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing YHWH your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
Y’all have planted much, but bring in little. Y’all eat, but don’t have enough. Y’all drink, but aren’t not enough to be tipsy. Y’all clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. The one who earns wages puts them into a bag with holes.’
Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into the house of YHWH, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for YHWH has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”