'Straight' in the Bible

It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”

So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.

And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes;Make Your way straight before me.

He led them also by a straight way,To go to an inhabited city.

In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight.

Let your eyes look directly aheadAnd let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

Calling to those who pass by,Who are making their paths straight:

Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,But a man of understanding walks straight.

“With weeping they will come,And by supplication I will lead them;I will make them walk by streams of waters,On a straight path in which they will not stumble;For I am a father to Israel,And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.

Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze.

their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.

But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

“You will go out through breaches in the walls,Each one straight before her,And you will be cast to Harmon,” declares the Lord.

Now hear this, heads of the house of JacobAnd rulers of the house of Israel,Who abhor justiceAnd twist everything that is straight,

For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said,“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight!’”

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight.’”

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.”

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight.

‘Every ravine will be filled,And every mountain and hill will be brought low;The crooked will become straight,And the rough roads smooth;

He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

So putting out to sea from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

When we had parted from them and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara;

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.