20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

Wandering sheep, have my people, been, Their own shepherds led them astray, On the mountains, they seduced them, From mountain to hill, have they gone, They have forgotten their couching-place.

To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age-abiding, which shall not be forgotten.

For ye were as sheep going astray, but have now turned back unto the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:

On the way to life, is he that heedeth correction, but, he that hateth reproof, is going astray.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction that would cause thee to wander from the sayings of knowledge.

That the house of Israel may no more go astray from following me, And no more defile themselves by any of their transgressions, - But may become my people, and I, may become their God, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

The man who wandereth from the way of discretion, in the gathered host of the shades, shall settle down.

But as for the Levites. Who went far from me, when Israel went astray. Who went astray from me, after their manufactured gods, Therefore shall they bear their iniquity,

But the priests the Levites the sons of Zadok, Who kept the charge of my sanctuary - when the sons of Israel went astray from me, They shall draw near unto me to wait upon me, And shall stand before me, to bring near unto me the fat and the blood Declareth My Lord, Yahweh:

for the priests that are hallowed - the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, - who went not astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites I went astray.

Woe to them! for they have taken flight from me, destruction to them! for they have transgressed against me, - when, I, would have ransomed them, then, they, spake - concerning me - falsehoods.

They invited them, - at once, they departed from before me, they, to the Baals, sacrificed, and, to the images, offered incense.

Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.

Let not thy heart, turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray, in her paths.

Wherefore I was sore vexed with this generation, and said, Always err they in their heart; - howbeit, they, learned not my ways:

But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance, - ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.

All, have turned aside, together, have become useless, There is none that doeth kindness, not so much as one:

My brethren! If one among you be led to err from the truth, and one turn him back,

We all, like sheep, had gone astray, Every man - to his way, had we burned, - And Yahweh! caused to light upon him The guilt of, us all!