If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.