20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away [to the] mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.

They will ask [the] way [to] Zion, [turning] their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh [by] {an everlasting covenant} [that] will not be forgotten.

For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

{who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;

[On] the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray.

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

so that the house of Israel will not go astray again {from me}, and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.

{But} the Levites who removed themselves from me {at the going astray of Israel}, who went astray from me [and went] after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt.

But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary {when the Israelites went astray} from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand {before me} to offer to me fat and blood," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

To the priests, the [ones] being consecrated from the descendants of Zadok, who took care of my service [and] who {did not go astray} {when the Israelites went astray}, {just as} the Levites went astray.

Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I myself would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

But you, you have turned from the way; you have caused many to stumble by [your] instruction; you have ruined the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.

All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one.

My brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth and someone turns him back,

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.