Sentences with phrase «exiled in a strange land»

It has always been about the adventure of being a Jew exiled in a strange land.

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(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Bob, yes the law was not met by the people, and therefore this is why they have been driven to strange lands, this is where we get the exile of the 10 tribes until this day who were scattered to the four corners of the earth, warned to the people in Deuteronomy 28 - 30, of the blessings, and then of the curses.

Stephen Shoemaker writes that «exile was (and is) a time of captivity and chastening, of figuring out what went wrong and why, a time of gestations, of waiting, of singing the Lord's song in a strange land, a time of hoping in what we can not see.

I have always been drawn toward stories of exile and expatriation, of people living as strangers in strange lands.