16 occurrences

'Strange' in the Bible

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsAbandonmentDivination, Practiced ByJacob, The PatriarchPagansSyncretismOut Of The EastRelations With ForeignersAliens

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignerselection, privileges ofChoicesLand, As A Divine GiftLand, Spiritual Aspects OfParticipation, In ChristUnity, God's Goal OfAliens, Believers DutyForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Will Show MercyFamily UnityStrangers in israelAliensisrael

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

Verse ConceptsGod's Activity In The NationsForeignersUnknown LanguagesSpeech ImpedimentsLanguagespeaking

For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingWhat God Does

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility

I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsI Am The Lord

And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignersReinstatementServanthood, In SocietyAnger Of God, Saved FromDivine FavourForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Showed MercyAliensFavorrebuilding

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersVineyardForeigners Included Among The PeopleStock KeepingStrangers in israelAliens

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

Verse ConceptsForeignersHandsOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtRight Hand Of GodForeigners SubduedGod Feeds All The EarthOvercoming EnemiesAliensSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain