Study it in the app“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says YHWH Tsevaot. And you say, “How shall we return?””
From the daysלְמִימֵיof your fathersאֲבֹתֵיכֶםyou have turned asideסַרְתֶּםfrom my statutesמֵחֻקַּיand have notוְלֹאkept them.שְׁמַרְתֶּםReturnשׁוּבוּto me,אֵלַיand I will returnוְאָשׁוּבָהto you,אֲלֵיכֶםsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot.צְבָאוֹתAnd you say,וַאֲמַרְתֶּם“Howבַּמֶּהshall we return?”נָשׁוּב
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yme” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsturn aside
To leave the road, go away.
Where else “sartem” appearsstatute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chuka” appearskeep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shemartem” appearsturn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “shuvu” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appears6For I, YHWH, do not change; and you, sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.
7 · This verse (above)
8Will a human being rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing me. And you say, “How have we robbed you?” In the tithe and the contribution.
