Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there ye cannot come: - q.d., 'Your desire to be rid of Me will be for you all too soon fulfilled: Yet a little while and we part company-forever; because I go where ye cannot come, nor, even though ye should at length seek to Him whom now ye despise, shall ye be able to find Him'-referring not to any penitential, but to purely selfish cries in their time of desperation.