זוּר

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: