She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’

Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.

Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.