malachi 3:7 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?

malachi 3:7 "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 the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

7-12. Reproof for the non-payment of tithes and offerings, which is the cause of their national calamities, and promise of prosperity on their paying them.
from . . . days of your fathers--Ye live as your fathers did when they brought on themselves the Babylonian captivity, and ye wish to follow in their steps. This shows that nothing but God's unchanging long-suffering had prevented their being long ago "consumed" (Mal 3:6).
Return unto me--in penitence.
I will return unto you--in blessings.
Wherein, &c.-- (Mal 3:16). The same insensibility to their guilt continues: they speak in the tone of injured innocence, as if God calumniated them.

malachi 3:7 "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 the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

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