The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Lord GOD.

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.