Jeremiah 50:6

⁶ My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place.

Lamentations 3:58

⁵⁸ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

To go after or to follow, as in Genesis 24:8, signifies to be separated from the natural and conjoined to the rational principle.