7 Bible Verses about Estrangement

The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless?

I'll do this in order to capture the hearts of Israel's house who have become alienated from me due to all of their idols."'"

But the descendants of Levi, who went far away from me when Israel abandoned me, who left me to follow their idols, are to bear the punishment of their iniquity.

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.