'Away' in the Bible

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.

The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.

I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.