23 Bible Verses about Far From Here

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

Is this your exciting city, that was founded long ago, whose feet carried her to settle in far-off lands?

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

So he said, "A prince went to a distant country to be appointed king and then to return.

I will scatter them among the nations, and so they will remember me in distant countries. They will rear their children, and they will return.

The LORD will signal for nations far away, whistling for them to come from the ends of the earth. Look how quickly and how swiftly they come!

"Therefore you are to say, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "Although I've removed them far away to live among the nations, and although I've scattered them throughout the earth, yet I've continued to be their sanctuary, even for the short time that they will be living in the lands to which they've gone."'

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

"Your eyes will see the king in his elegance, and will view a land that stretches afar.

If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.

A person with understanding has wisdom as his objective, but a fool looks only to earthly goals.

Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places, and your devastated land will now be too crowded for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.

and sold Judah's and Jerusalem's descendants to the Greeks, so you can remove them far from their homeland!

and I will sell your sons and daughters into the control of the people of Judah. And they will sell them to the people of Sheba, a country far away." Indeed, the LORD has spoken."

And he will judge among many people, rebuking strong nations far away; and they will reshape their swords as plowshares and their spears as pruning hooks. No nation will threaten another, nor will they train for war anymore.

"If the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name is distant from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and your flock what the LORD has provided for you, as he instructed you. You may consume them in your cities as much as you please.

Now the way may be distant from you, so that you are unable to transport your tithe because you have been blessed by the LORD your God and the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name may be distant from you.

If your fellow countryman doesn't live near you or you don't know who he is, bring the animal to your house and let it remain with you until he claims it. Then return it to him.

Do this to all the cities that are distant from you that is, to those cities that are not in neighboring nations."

So the five men left and went to Laish, and observed the people who were living there carefree, as Sidonians tend to do, in peace and quiet. There was no ruler in the land oppressing them for any reason. They were living far away from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone.

They had no one else to deliver them, because they lived far from Sidon and had no dealings with anyone. It lay in the valley near Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.

By this time the boat was in the middle of the sea and was being battered by the waves, because the wind was against them.

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'