40 Bible Verses about wandering
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For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORDswore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'
'You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."'
"He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, 'They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.'
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man."
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
And the LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.
Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
"You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.
let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
"And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Then you will say in your heart: 'Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; from where have these come?'"
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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