14 Bible Verses about Driven From God's Presence

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah.

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

until the Lord removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.

The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

Surely at the command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence until now.

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

“So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight.
Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’