Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping!

May all my enemies be humiliated and absolutely terrified! May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

I chase my enemies and catch them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated! May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, so I can pay them back!"

Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

The Lord says, "I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

May those who say, "Aha! Aha!" be driven back and disgraced!

Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!

When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults.

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine,

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, "This one was born there." (Selah)

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes -- you will see the wicked paid back.

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!

The Lord made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said, "I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month."

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.

In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Do not say, "I will pay back evil!" Wait for the Lord, so that he may vindicate you.

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

All day long he craves greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

Do not say, "I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done."

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone -- it will come back on him.

A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.

Its posts were made of silver; its back was made of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple wool; its interior was inlaid with leather by the maidens of Jerusalem.

During the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it.

A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.

Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord's land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again."

I will fasten him like a peg into a solid place; he will bring honor and respect to his father's family.

His father's family will gain increasing prominence because of him, including the offspring and the offshoots. All the small containers, including the bowls and all the jars will hang from this peg.'

"At that time," says the Lord who commands armies, "the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off." Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came."

He will go back the way he came -- he will not enter this city,' says the Lord.

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz." And then the shadow went back ten steps.

you whom I am bringing back from the earth's extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions -- I told you, "You are my servant." I have chosen you and not rejected you.

"I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'"

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!"

I will say to the north, 'Hand them over!' and to the south, 'Don't hold any back!' Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,

I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you."

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you."

"Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected," says your God.

The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.

I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.

But those who harvest the grain will eat it, and will praise the Lord. Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary."

Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion!

In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog's neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig's blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.

The sound of battle comes from the city; the sound comes from the temple! It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies.

"Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?" asks the Lord. "Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?" asks your God.

They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem," says the Lord, "just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord's temple in ritually pure containers.

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.