Malachi 3:17
Verse 17 of 18. The 3rd of 4 chapters in Malachi, in The Minor Prophets.
13“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
16Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.
17They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.