Seek good, and not evil, That you may live; And so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you say.
Even still God is holding out an offer of help, an offer of hope to them, "If you'll just seek Me it can be changed. You don't have to go into judgment, you don't have to go into captivity. If you'll just seek Me things will be different." But yet they would not seek Him. But God is saying,