'Around' in the Bible

The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

Go around Zion, encircle it;count its towers,

Our God is coming; He will not be silent!Devouring fire precedes Him,and a storm rages around Him.

Day and night they prowl around its walls; evil and iniquity are within it.

They return at evening, snarling like dogsand prowling around the city.

Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield.

And they return at evening, snarling like dogsand prowling around the city.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Make and keep your vowsto the Lord your God;let all who are around Him bring tributeto the awe-inspiring One.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

He made them fall in His camp,all around His tent.

They poured out their bloodlike water all around Jerusalem,and there was no one to bury them.

We have become an object of reproachto our neighbors,a source of mockery and ridiculeto those around us.

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

God is feared in the council of the holy ones, revered by all those around him.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.

Thick clouds are all around him; righteousness and justice are his throne's foundation.

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,like a belt he always wears.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,and the torments of Sheol overcame me;I encountered trouble and sorrow.

They surrounded me, they are around me; but in the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

Though the ropes of the wickedwere wrapped around me,I did not forget Your instruction.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills [of Jerusalem]—From where shall my help come?

Your wife will be like a fruitful vinewithin your house,your sons, like young olive treesaround your table.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,and the light around me will be night”—

Free me from prisonso that I can praise Your name.The righteous will gather around mebecause You deal generously with me.

Stretch out Your hand from above;Set me free and rescue me from great waters,Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]

for they will be a garland of grace on your headand a gold chain around your neck.

Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.Tie them around your neck;write them on the tablet of your heart.

A worthless person, a wicked mangoes around speaking dishonestly,

Always bind them to your heart;tie them around your neck.

A gossip goes around revealing a secret,but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

All the relatives of a poor person shun him how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he runs after them pleading, they aren't around.

a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.

The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

I also accumulated silver, gold, and the wealth of kings and their kingdoms. I gathered around me both male and female singers, along with what delights a man all sorts of mistresses.

So I turned aside and let my heart despair over all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road;the almond tree blossoms,the grasshopper loses its spring,and the caper berry has no effect;for man is headed to his eternal home,and mourners will walk around in the street;

The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn around, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the rugged mountains.

I'll get up and go all around the city, throughout the streets, and in the squares. I'll seek the one I love. I sought him, but didn't find him.

The watchmen who go all around the city found me. I asked, "Have you seen the one I love?"

Lo, his couch, that is Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones are around it, Of the mighty of Israel,

Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.

"The expressions on their faces give them away. They parade their sin around like Sodom; they don't even try to hide it. How horrible it will be for them, because they have brought disaster on themselves!"

He dug it all around, removed its stones,And planted it with the choicest vine.And He built a tower in the middle of itAnd also hewed out a wine vat in it;Then He expected it to produce good grapes,But it produced only worthless ones.

No one is weary, no one stumbles, and no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt around their waists will come undone, nor will their sandal straps be broken.

So it will be in that day, that the burden of the Assyrian will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because of the fat.

Righteousness will be a belt around His loins;faithfulness will be a belt around His waist.

For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

The LORD has mixed within them a spirit of confusion; so they make Egypt stagger in all that it does, like a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

at that time the LORD spoke through Amoz's son Isaiah: "Go loosen the sackcloth that's around your waist, and take your sandals off your feet." So that's what he did: he went around naked and barefoot.

Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a warning for Egypt and Ethiopia,

Therefore my body is racked with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am so upset that I cannot hear; I am so frightened that I cannot see while I'm reeling around.

he will wind a winding tightly around you like ball, to a {wide land}. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor [will be], disgrace to your master's house!

I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority into his hand, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.

"Take a harp; walk around the city, you forgotten whore! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, and perhaps you'll be remembered."

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer -- priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

because the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its blankets too narrow to wrap around oneself!

When he has leveled its surface, he scatters caraway and sows cumin, doesn't he? He plants wheat in rows, barley in its designated place, and feed for livestock around its borders, doesn't he?

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

I will camp in a circle around you;I will besiege you with earth ramps,and I will set up my siege towers against you.

"Act stupid! Be astonished! Act blind, and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger around, but not from strong drink.

You have turned things around,as if the potter were the same as the clay.How can what is made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”?How can what is formedsay about the one who formed it,“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye are gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see it together.

So He poured out on him the heat of His angerAnd the fierceness of battle;And it set him aflame all around,Yet he did not recognize it;And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save.

Look up, and look around.They all gather together; they come to you.As I live”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“you will wear all your children as jewelry,and put them on as a bride does.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,O captive Jerusalem;Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,O captive daughter of Zion.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep!

At that time, when you call, the Lord will answer;when you cry out, He will say, ‘Here I am.’If you get rid of the yoke among you,the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

Raise your eyes and look around:they all gather and come to you;your sons will come from far away,and your daughters will be carried on the hip.

For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north," says Yahweh; "and they shall come, and they shall each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

“Why do you go around so muchChanging your way?Also, you will be put to shame by EgyptAs you were put to shame by Assyria.

Raise a standard in the direction of Zion. Flee! Don't stand around! For I'm bringing calamity from the north, along with great destruction.

Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," {declares} Yahweh.

The Lord said, "Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.

All of this is because the Lord who rules over all has said: 'Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. This is the city which is to be punished. Nothing but oppression happens in it.

You must not go out [into] the field, and you must not walk on the road, for {the enemy has a sword}, terror [is] all around.

All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.

The Lord said to me, "Tell them, 'The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I (Jeremiah) am broken;I mourn, anxiety has gripped me.

"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.

“They adorn the idol with silver and with gold;They fasten it with hammers and nailsSo that it will not fall apart.

Is my inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to me? Are the other birds of prey all around her coming against her? Go, gather all the wild animals and bring them to devour it.

This is what the LORD told me: "Go and buy a linen belt for yourself, and put it around your waist. But don't let it get wet."

So I bought the belt according to the LORD's instruction, and put it around my waist.