40 Bible Verses about wandering
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For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.
And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.
You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.
And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.
Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?
And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.
Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
