They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; But they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
The collapse of Israel meant the end of their institutions, the actual end of their cultural world.  It was the close of an era.  Great numbers of Israelites would perish; property losses would be enormous; all the major cities of the land would be obliterated; and thousands would be deported.[18]