Jeremiah 2:27
You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.
Isaiah 26:16
Jehovah, they came to you in their distress. When you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
Judges 10:8-16
They afflicted and oppressed the sons of Israel. For eighteen years they lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.
Psalm 78:34-37
When he killed some of them, the rest searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them.
Isaiah 44:9-20
All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.
Isaiah 46:6-8
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
Jeremiah 2:24
You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the desert. You sniff at the wind while in heat. All who seek you will not get tired. They will find you during your monthly period.
Jeremiah 10:8
They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!
Jeremiah 18:17
Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their calamity.'
Jeremiah 22:23
You who dwell in Lebanon nested in the cedars. How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Jeremiah 32:33
have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.
Ezekiel 8:16
So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.
Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your acts of prostitution.'
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek me. They will seek me earnestly in their affliction.
Hosea 7:14
And they do not cry to me from their heart when they wail on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble, but they turn away from me.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
What is an idol worth after the carver is done? It is merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made by human hands from wood or metal?