Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of hosts. “But you say, 'How will we return?'This verse in the real world
Who
In what words
- חֹקchôqan enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
- סוּרçûwrto turn off (literal or figurative)
- צָבָאtsâbâʼa mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); b
- שָׁמַרshâmarproperly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, e
- שׁוּבshûwbto turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not
- אָבʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- יוֹםyôwma day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to
- אָמַרʼâmarto say (used with great latitude)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Zec 1:3, Rom 10:21, Jas 4:8, Deu 31:20, Rom 10:3, Lev 26:40–42, Hos 14:1, Neh 9:28–30