רָחַק

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.”

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

and Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’ ”

“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.” ’

Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.

“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.

and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

A day to build your walls— In that day, he will extend your boundary.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”