'Afar' in the Bible

and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.

I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.