100 Bible Verses About Isolation

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.

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

And they removed from Ezion–gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

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

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:

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

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

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.

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

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

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

And he put them all together into ward three days.

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.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: