Seek the Lord and Live

Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;

but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.”

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.