68 Bible Verses About Alienation

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.