Away

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.

As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.

…then the raging waters would have swept us away.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

…or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

…lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your infamy never go away.

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

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

…when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”

The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

…when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.

…until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

…so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

…until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.

But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”

For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.