14 Bible Verses about Driven From God's Presence

As smoke is blown away,
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.

Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

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

Therefore, the Lord was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained.

So the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had banished them from His presence.

Finally, the Lord removed Israel from His presence just as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland until today.

For the Lord had said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, that I have chosen, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name will be there.’”

Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord’s command to remove them from His sight. It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,

Because of the Lord’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence. Then, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Because of the Lord’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that He finally banished them from His presence. Nevertheless, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

but the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them. Even now He has not banished them from His presence.

I will surely forget you and throw away from My presence both you and the city that I gave you and your fathers.

But I said: I have been banished
from Your sight,
yet I will look once more
toward Your holy temple.