⁶ Seek^(A) the Lord while he may be found;^(B)
    call^(C) on him while he is near.

“Seek^(A) me and live;^(B)
5     do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,^(C)
    do not journey to Beersheba.^(D)
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
    and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.^[a](E)”
⁶ Seek^(F) the Lord and live,^(G)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;^(H)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel^(I) will have no one to quench it.^(J)

¹² People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.^(A)