23 Bible Verses about Far From Here

Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly?

And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

He said therefore, "A certain noble man went into a far country, to receive him a kingdom, and then to come again.

I will sow them among the people, that they may think upon me in far countries: they shall live with their children, and turn again.

And he shall give a token unto a strange people, and call unto them in a far country: and behold, they shall come hastily with speed.

Therefore tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will send you far off among the Gentiles, and scatter you among the nations, and I will hallow you but a little, in the lands where ye shall come.'

And he said unto me, 'Depart for I will send thee afar hence unto the gentiles.'"

His eyes shall see the king in his glory, and in the wide world;

If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost part of the sea, even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy righthand shall hold me.

Wisdom shineth in the face of him that hath understanding; but the eyes of fools wander throughout all lands.

As for thy land that lieth desolate, wasted and destroyed: it shall be too narrow for them, that shall dwell in it. And they that would devour thee, shall be far away.

The children also of Judah and Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Greeks, that ye might bring them the far from the borders of their own countries.

Your sons and your daughters will I sell through the hands of the children of Judah, and so they shall give them forth to sell, unto them of Sheba, a people of a far country: for the LORD himself hath said it.

And shall give sentence among the multitude of the Heathen and reform the people of far countries: so that of their swords they shall make plowshares, and scythes of their spears. One people shall not lift up a sword against another, yea they shall no more learn to fight.

If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou mayest kill of thy oxen and of thy sheep which the LORD hath given thee as I have commanded thee, and thou mayest eat in thine own city whatsoever thy soul lusteth.

If the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from the which the LORD thy God hath chosen to set his name there - for the LORD thy God hath blessed thee -

If thy brother be not nigh unto thee or if thou know him not, then bring them unto thine own house and let them be with thee, until thy brother ask after them, and then deliver him them again.

Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way off from thee and not of the cities of these nations.

Then the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, and after the manner of the Sidonians: still, and without casting of perils, and that no man made any trouble in the land or usurped any dominion, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no business with any nation.

And there was no man to help, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no meddling with any other nation. And the city stood in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built the city and dwelt therein.

And the ship was now in the midst of the sea, and was tossed with waves, for it was a contrary wind.

And the publican stood afar off, and would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, a sinner.'