They’ll go with their flocks and their herds to seek Me, offering a multitude of sacrifices, but they won’t find Me because they are abandoned.

I’ll be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the people of Judah. I’ll tear them to pieces myself and make off with My kill. I’ll carry it away, and no one will be able to take it from Me.

Plant a crop of righteousness for yourselves, harvest the fruit of unfailing love, And break up your hard soil, because it’s time to seek the Eternal until He comes and waters your fields with justice.