Lexicon :: Strong's H8582 - tāʿâ

Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering off, you must bring it back to him.

“He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth

And makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.

“Let him not trust in vanity (emptiness, futility) and be led astray;

For emptiness will be his [fn]reward [for such living].

“Who provides prey for the raven

When its young cry to God

And wander about without food?

The wicked are estranged from the womb;

These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,

And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,

And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’

They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;

And did not find a way to an inhabited city.

He pours contempt on princes

And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

The wicked have laid a snare for me,

Yet I do not wander from Your precepts.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep;

Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,

Do not stray into her [evil, immoral] paths.

He who learns from instruction and correction is on the [right] path of life [and for others his example is a path toward wisdom and blessing],

But he who ignores and refuses correction goes off course [and for others his example is a path toward sin and ruin].

The righteous man is a guide to his neighbor,

But the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Do they not go astray who devise evil and wander from the way of righteousness?

But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

A man who wanders from the way of understanding (godly wisdom)

Will remain in the assembly of the dead.

O My people! Children are their oppressors,

And women rule over them.

O My people! Your leaders lead you astray

And confuse (destroy, swallow up) the direction of your paths.

For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray;

And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up.

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;

Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

The princes of Zoan have acted like fools,

The princes of Memphis are deluded [and entertain false hope];

Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes

Have led Egypt astray.

My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;

The twilight I longed for has been [fn]turned into fear and trembling for me.

But even these reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:

The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;

They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;

They reel while seeing visions,

They stagger when pronouncing judgment.

“Those who err in mind will know the truth,

And those who criticize and murmur discontentedly will accept instruction.

His breath is like an overflowing river,

Which reaches to the neck,

To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster],

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

A highway will be there, and a roadway;

And it will be called the Holy Way.

The unclean will not travel on it,

But it will be for those who walk on the way [the redeemed];

And fools will not wander on it.

“This is how they have become to you, those [astrologers and sorcerers] with whom you have labored,

Those who have done business with you from your youth;

Each has wandered in his own way.

There is no one to save you.

All of us like sheep have gone astray,

We have turned, each one, to his own way;

But the LORD has caused the wickedness of us all [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]

To fall on Him [instead of us].

O LORD, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways

And harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]?

Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.

“And I have seen a foolish and an offensive thing in the prophets of Samaria:

They prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.

“My people have become lost sheep;

Their shepherds have led them astray.

They have made them turn aside [to the seductive places of idolatry] on the mountains.

They have gone along [from one sin to another] from mountain to hill;

They have forgotten their [own] resting place.

“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of My sanctuary when the children (descendants) of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood,” declares the Lord GOD.

My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles.

For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually],

And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Judah and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD [the sum of God’s instruction to His people]

And have not kept His commandments;

But their lies [and their idols], after which their fathers walked,

Caused them to go astray.

Thus says the LORD concerning the [false] prophets who lead my people astray;

When they have something good to bite with their teeth,

They call out, “Peace,”

But against the one who gives them nothing to eat,

They declare a holy war.