23 Bible Verses about Far From Here
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{Is this your exultant one}, her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.
And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.
Therefore he said, "A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return.
And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!
Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them [far away] among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them [for a] little while in the countries {to which they have gone}.'"
And he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"
Your eyes will see [the] king in his beauty; they will see a {distant land}.
If I lift up [the] wings of [the] dawn, [and] I alight on [the] far side of [the] sea, even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast.
He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.
Surely your sites of ruins and desolate [places] and land of ruins, surely now you will be {too cramped for your} inhabitants, and those who engulfed you will be far away.
And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to [the] Sabeans and to a nation far [away], for Yahweh has spoken.
And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn war.
If the place that Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is [too] far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you [just] as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your {towns}.
But if {the distance is too great for you}, [so] that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is [too] far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,
And if your countryman [is] not near you or you do not know {who he is}, then you shall bring it {to your household}, and it shall be with you {until your countryman seeks after it}, and you shall return it to him.
Thus you shall do to all the far cities from you, which [are] not from the cities of these nations located {nearby}.
And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who [were] living according to the customs of [the] Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they [were] far from [the] Sidonians and had no word with anyone.
There was no deliverer, because it [was] far from Sidon, and {they had had no dealings with anyone}. It [was] in the valley that belonged to Beth-rehob, and they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
But the boat was already many stadia distant from the land, being beaten by the waves, because the wind was against [it].
But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
