353 verses contain “Strang” (in the KJV: 347, in the BSB: 68) — showing 201–300
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve
strangers in a land that is not yours.
And when the people ask, ‘For what
offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have
forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
If ye
oppress not the
stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your
hurt:
if you no longer
oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own
harm,
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in
Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they
provoked me to anger with their
graven images, and with
strange vanities?
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in
Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they
provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
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?
O Hope of Israel, its
Savior in times of distress, why are You like a
stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
Thus saith the LORD;
Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the
spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the
stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
This is what the LORD says:
Administer justice and righteousness.
Rescue the
victim of
robbery from the hand of his
oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will
burst thy bonds, and
strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and
tear off their bonds, and no longer will
strangers enslave them.
Neither shall ye build house, nor
sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be
strangers.
Nor are you ever to build a house or
sow seed or plant a
vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you
wander.’
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall
fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
I will send
strangers to Babylon to
winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of
disaster.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for
strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.
“We are
ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
Not to many people of a
strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have
hearkened unto thee.
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have
listened to you.
And I will give it into the hands of the
strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a
spoil; and they shall
pollute it.
And I will hand these things over as
plunder to foreigners and
loot to the wicked of the earth, who will
defile them.
And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will
execute judgments among you.
I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will
execute judgments against you.
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the
stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to
enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
For when any
Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked
stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.
But as a wife that committeth
adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband!
You
adulterous wife! You receive
strangers instead of your own husband!
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in thee have they
vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are
oppressed.
The people of the land have practiced
extortion and committed
robbery. They have
oppressed the poor and
needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall
defile thy brightness.
behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most
ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will
defile your
splendor.
Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
You will die the death of the
uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring
desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Foreigners, the most
ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary
strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and
uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to
pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners
uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you
defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No
stranger,
uncircumcised in heart, nor
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any
stranger that is among the children of Israel.
This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner
uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the
strangers that
sojourn among you, which shall
beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
You shall
allot it as an inheritance for
yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be
allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to
assign his inheritance there,” declares the Lord GOD.
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.
They have dealt
treacherously against the LORD: for they have
begotten strange children: now shall a month
devour them with their portions.
They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne
illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will
devour them along with their land.
Strangers have
devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not:
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Foreigners
consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is
streaked with gray, but he does not know.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall
reap the
whirlwind: it hath no
stalk: the
bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the
strangers shall
swallow it up.
For they
sow the wind, and they shall
reap the
whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what
sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would
swallow it up.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in
Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.
Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in
Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the
strangers carried away
captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou
wast as one of them.
On the day you stood
aloof while
strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a
stranger; neither shouldest thou have
rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
But you should not
gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor
rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor
boast proudly in the day of their distress.
The lion did
tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and
strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with
ravin.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will
punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with
strange apparel.
“On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will
punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign
apparel.
And
oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the
stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Do not
oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Judah hath dealt
treacherously, and an
abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath
profaned the
holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a
strange god.
Judah has broken faith; an
abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has
profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the
hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who
defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
He saith,
Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of
strangers?
“
Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus
preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are
exempt,” Jesus declared.
For I was an
hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:
For I was
hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you took Me in,
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
When did we see You a
stranger and take You in, or naked and
clothe You?
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
I was a
stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not
clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred, or
athirst, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You
hungry or
thirsty or a
stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
And they took counsel, and bought with them the
potter’s field, to
bury strangers in.
After
conferring together, they used the money to
buy the
potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
And they were all
amazed, and they
glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen
strange things to day.
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”
And the one of them, whose name was
Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a
stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
One of them, named
Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only
visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
And a
stranger will they not follow, but will
flee from him: for they know not the voice of
strangers.
But they will never follow a
stranger; in fact, they will
flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”
Phrygia, and
Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of
Libya about
Cyrene, and
strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should
sojourn in a
strange land; and that they should bring them into
bondage, and
entreat them evil four hundred years.
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a
strange land, and that they would be
enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a
stranger in the land of Madian, where he
begat two sons.
At this remark, Moses fled to the land of
Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and
exalted the people when they dwelt as
strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an
uplifted arm He led them out of that land.
But that we write unto them, that they
abstain from pollutions of idols, and from
fornication, and from things
strangled, and from blood.
Instead, we should write and tell them to
abstain from food
polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of
strangled animals, and from blood.
You must
abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of
strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
Then certain philosophers of the
Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,
encountered him. And some said, What will this
babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a
setter forth of
strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Some
Epicurean and
Stoic philosophers also began to
debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this
babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was
proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and
articulating new ideas.
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from
strangled, and from
fornication.
As for the
Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must
abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of
strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them
blaspheme. In my
raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to
persecute them.
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
It is written in the Law: “By
strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not
listen to Me, says the Lord.”
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ,
alienated from the
commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have
lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the
afflicted, if she have
diligently followed every good work.
and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children,
entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the
afflicted, and
devoting herself to every good work.
By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a
strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them
afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and
confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and
welcomed them from
afar. And they acknowledged that they were
strangers and exiles on the earth.
Be not
forgetful to
entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Do not neglect to show
hospitality to
strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Be not carried about with
divers and
strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
Dearly beloved, I
beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Beloved, I
urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to
abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of
riot, speaking evil of you:
Beloved, think it not
strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some
strange thing happened unto you:
Beloved, do not be surprised at the
fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something
strange were happening to you.
Beloved, thou doest faithfully
whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to
strangers;
Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.
Even as
Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to
fornication, and going after
strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.
In like manner,
Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities around them, who
indulged in sexual immorality and pursued
strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who
sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
And these are they of
Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as
strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.
The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the
strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the
Canaanites,
Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.
For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.
That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an
heritage, is a land
polluted with the pollutions of the
strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.
Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O
Esdras, we have
sinned against the Lord God, we have married
strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel
aloft.
So
Esdras arose up, and said unto them, Ye have
transgressed the law in marrying
strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.
And do his will, and separate
yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the
strange women.
Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,
So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first month.
And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found:
All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.
Because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have offered unto strange gods.
Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
For
strangers shall
reap their fruits, and
spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children
captives, for in captivity and famine shall they get children.
But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is
strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.
Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom
Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had
lain with her.
Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast
strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither
wast thou named after any of them.
Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have
strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
Beware of all
whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a
strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall
inherit the land.
Both they, and their wives and their children, and their cattle, and every
stranger and
hireling, and their servants bought with money, put
sackcloth upon their loins.
And then they ran all together, both small and great, for it was strange unto them that she was come: so they opened the gate, and received them, and made a fire for a light, and stood round about them.
Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had
confessed it, they were
strangled.
Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:
For Aman, a
Macedonian, the son of Amadatha, being indeed a
stranger from the Persian blood, and far distant from our goodness, and as a
stranger received of us,