Jeremiah 2:27
For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'
Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out their prayer while thy chastening was upon them.
Judges 10:8-16
which pilled and oppressed the children of Israel in those days eighteen years, all that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.
Psalm 78:34-37
When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:9-20
All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.
Isaiah 46:6-8
Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it.
Jeremiah 2:24
and thy wantonness is like a wild Ass, that useth the wilderness, and that snuffeth and bloweth at his will. Who can tame thee? All they that seek thee, shall not fail, but find thee in thy own uncleanness.
Jeremiah 10:8
They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:
Jeremiah 18:17
With an East wind will I scatter them, before their enemies. And when their destruction cometh, I will turn my back upon them, but not my face."
Jeremiah 22:23
thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?
Jeremiah 32:33
When I stood up early, and taught them and instructed them, they turned their backs to me, and not their faces.
Ezekiel 8:16
And so he brought me into the inward court of the LORD's house. And behold, at the port of the LORD's house, betwixt the fore entry and the altar, there were five and twenty men that turned their backs on the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, and these worshiped the sun.
Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom."
Hosea 5:15
I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.
Hosea 7:14
They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?