Quotes About Exile

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.í

Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.