I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
"In their affliction, they will seek me earnestly ..."  This prophecy was surely fulfilled upon the ultimate return of some of the captives following the end of the southern Israel's captivity; but, as regards the northern Israel, there is no promise here that their entreaties would be heard.  As a matter of fact, they were not heard; and the whole people disappeared forever.  Significantly, the promise that God would hear those earnest entreaties is conspicuously absent from this verse.