'Estranged' in the Bible
“He has put my brothers far from me,And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb;These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].
Ah, sinful nation,A people loaded down with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing],Offspring of evildoers,Sons who behave corruptly!They have abandoned (rejected) the Lord,They have despised the Holy One of Israel [provoking Him to anger],They have turned away from Him.
Because the people [of Jerusalem] have abandoned (rejected) Me and have made this an alien and profaned place by burning sacrifices and incense in it to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
in order that I may take hold of the heart (mind) of the house of Israel who are all estranged from Me because of their idols.”’
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction].”
remember that at that time you were separated from Christ [excluded from any relationship with Him], alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise [with no share in the sacred Messianic promise and without knowledge of God’s agreements], having no hope [in His promise] and [living] in the world without God.
for their [moral] understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; [they are] alienated and self-banished from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the [willful] ignorance and spiritual blindness that is [deep-seated] within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.
And although you were at one time estranged and alienated and hostile-minded [toward Him], participating in evil things,
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- Abandoned (165 instances)
- Alien (124 instances)
- Alienate (4 instances)
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- Estranged (14 instances)
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- Friendless (1 instance)
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