'Estranged' in the Bible
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, "May the LORD watch between you and me, when we are estranged from each other.
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
I have become estranged from my brothersAnd an alien to my mother’s sons.
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction].”