'Turned' in the Bible

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.

I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

The sea looked and fled;the Jordan turned back.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?Jordan, that you turned back?

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Because He has turned His ear to me,I will call out to Him as long as I live.

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Let your worshippers be turned to me, and those who have knowledge of your words.

The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.

I have not turned from Your judgments,for You Yourself have instructed me.

Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.

Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name.

My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

My persecutors and foes are many.I have not turned from Your decrees.

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Your [drunken] eyes will see strange thingsAnd your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].

Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.

Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.

I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

Next I turned to consider all kinds of oppression that exists on earth. Look at the tears of the oppressed there is no one to comfort them. Power is on the side of their oppressors; so they have no comforters.

Then I turned to re-examine something else that is pointless on earth:

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season} {has turned and gone away}.

I opened to my love,but my love had turned and gone away.I was crushed that he had left.I sought him, but did not find him.I called him, but he did not answer.

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

(The Shulammite Bride)“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]On the mountains of spices.”

Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

Oh sinful nation,people weighed down with iniquity,brood of evildoers,depraved children!They have abandoned the Lord;they have despised the Holy One of Israel;they have turned their backs on Him.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: 'Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'

Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed is its substance!'

Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah even the king of Assyria.

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.

And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.

And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.

And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”

To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath one cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.