Bible Verses About Wandering
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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Scripture Passages
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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.
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
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