When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

“If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.

Wanderings in the Wilderness

Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.”

I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them.”

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.

He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

They wander about for food and howl if not satisfied.

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.

he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.

A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Why, Lord, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.

This is what the Lord says about this people: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the Lord does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”

How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to the man.”

“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

“Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

“‘The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

The idols speak deceitfully, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back,

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.