2:3 Seek the Lord. See 1:6 and Is. 55:6, 7. Here this seeking of the Lord is further defined as “seek righteousness; seek humility.” A similar pattern is evident in Amos, where the prophet commands, “Seek the Lord” and later “Seek good, and not evil” (Amos 5:6, 14).

perhaps you may be hidden. The prophet’s tentative words here express both his hope that the “humble” remnant (v. 3) will find refuge from the Lord’s wrath (cf. Is. 55:7), and his pessimism that the “shameless nation” (v. 1) will repent. Cf. Amos 5:15.