Malachi 3:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Young's Literal Translation
Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, ‘In what do we turn back?’

King James Bible
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Hebrew
Yet from the days
לְמִימֵ֨י (lə·mî·mê)
Preposition-l, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of your fathers,
אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֜ם (’ă·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

you have turned away
סַרְתֶּ֤ם (sar·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

from My statutes
מֵֽחֻקַּי֙ (mê·ḥuq·qay)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

and have not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

kept them.
שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם (šə·mar·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

Return
שׁ֤וּבוּ (šū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to Me,
אֵלַי֙ (’ê·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

and I will return
וְאָשׁ֣וּבָה (wə·’ā·šū·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to you,”
אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם (’ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

says
אָמַ֖ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

of Hosts.
צְבָא֑וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign

But you ask,
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“How
בַּמֶּ֥ה (bam·meh)
Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can we return?”
נָשֽׁוּב׃ (nā·šūḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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