23 Bible Verses about Far From Here

I would run far away. I would stay in the desert.

Is this your exultant city founded in antiquity? Is this the city that sent its people to settle in distant lands?

In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.

He said: A nobleman traveled to a country far away to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

I will sow them among the peoples! They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and return.

Jehovah raises up a flag for the nations far away. With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth. Look, they are coming very quickly!

Therefore say: 'Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary (holy place) (shelter) (protection) for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.'

The Lord said: 'Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.'

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

If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there your hand will lead me. Your right hand will lay hold of me.

Wisdom is near the one who understands. But the eyes of a fool are far away at the ends of the earth.

Even if you are destroyed and demolished, and your land is in ruins, you will be too crowed for your people. Those who devoured you will be long gone.

You sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks. You remove them far 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 men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah has spoken it.

He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks! Nation will not lift up sword against nation and they will not learn war any more!

If the place Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you, you may slaughter an animal from the herds or flocks that Jehovah has given you. Eat as much as you want in your city. I have commanded you to do this.

The place Jehovah your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you cannot carry the tithe of your income that far.

If you are not acquainted with your brother, or you just do not know him, then you should bring it home to your house. Keep it with you until your brother looks for it. Then you should give it to him.

This is what you must do to all the cities that are far away that do not belong to the nations nearby.

So the five men left and traveled to the town of Laish. They saw how the people there lived in security like the Sidonians. They were a peaceful, quiet people, with no argument with anyone. They had all they needed. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had nothing to do with any other people.

There was no one to save them, because Laish was a long way from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any other people. The Danites rebuilt the town and settled down there.

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea. The wind and the waves caused great trouble.

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.