Jeremiah 2:27
saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave me birth. For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us!
Isaiah 26:16
Jehovah, in trouble they have visited You; they poured out a prayer; Your chastening was on them.
Judges 10:8-16
And that year they troubled and oppressed the sons of Israel; all the sons of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead, for eighteen years.
Psalm 78:34-37
When He killed them, then they looked for Him; and they turned back and sought after God.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:9-20
Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:6-8
They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.
Jeremiah 2:24
a wild ass used to the wilderness; in the desire of her passion she snuffs at the wind; in her time who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.
Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah 22:23
O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?
Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Ezekiel 8:16
And He brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house, and behold, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.
Ezekiel 23:35
So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries.
Hosea 5:15
I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.
Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?