Lexicon :: Strong's H7368 - rāḥaq

Now Moses used to take his own tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting [of God with His own people]. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the [temporary] tent of meeting which was outside the camp.

“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],

They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,

And there is no [fn]one to rescue them.

If sin is in your hand, put it far away [from you],

And do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tents;

Withdraw Your hand from me and remove this bodily suffering,

And let not the dread of You terrify me.

“He has put my brothers far from me,

And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

“But notice, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their hand (in their power);

The counsel of the wicked [and the mystery of God’s dealings with the ungodly] is far from my comprehension.

“Yet He filled their houses with good things;

But the counsel of the wicked and ungodly is far from me.

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];

If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,

And do not refrain from spitting in my face.

Do not be far from me, for trouble is near;

And there is no one to help.

But You, O LORD, do not be far from me;

O You my help, come quickly to my assistance.

You have seen this, O LORD; do not keep silent.

O Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not abandon me, O LORD;

O my God, do not be far from me.

“I would wander far away,

I would lodge in the [peace of the] wilderness. Selah.

O God, do not be far from me;

O my God, come quickly to help me!

You have put my friends far from me;

You have made me an [fn]object of loathing to them.

I am shut up and I cannot go out.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;

My familiar friends are in darkness.

As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;

He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Those who follow after wickedness approach;

They are far from Your law.

Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth,

And put devious lips far from you.

Let your way [in life] be far from her,

And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

All the brothers of a poor man hate him;

How much more do his friends abandon him!

He pursues them with words, but they are gone.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them];

He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;

The rod of discipline [correction administered with godly wisdom and lovingkindness] will remove it far from him.

Keep deception and lies far from me;

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

Feed me with the food that is my portion,

A time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones;

A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.

The LORD has removed [His] people far away,

And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.

You have increased the nation, O LORD;

You have increased the nation, You are glorified;

You have extended all the borders of the land.

Then the Lord said,

“Because this nation approaches [Me only] with their words

And honors Me [only] with their lip service,

But they remove their hearts far from Me,

And their reverence for Me is a tradition that is learned by rote [without any regard for its meaning],

“I bring near My righteousness [in the salvation of Israel], it is not far away;

And My salvation will not delay.

And I will grant salvation in Zion,

And My glory for Israel.

“For your ruins and desolate places and your land [once the scene] of destruction—

Certainly now [in the coming years] will be too cramped for the inhabitants,

And those who once engulfed you will be far away.

“You will be firmly established in righteousness:

You will be far from [even the thought of] oppression, for you will not fear,

And from terror, for it will not come near you.

Therefore justice is far from us,

And righteousness does not overtake us.

We [expectantly] hope for light, but only see darkness;

We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.

We all groan and growl like bears,

And coo sadly like doves;

We hope for justice, but there is none,

For salvation, but it is far from us.

“What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me,

That they have wandered far from Me

And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?

“I weep for these things;

My eyes overflow with tears,

Because a comforter,

One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.

My children are desolate and perishing,

For the enemy has prevailed.”