12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”

‘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.’”

Who say 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.’

They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

O Lord, what can I say since Israel has turned their back before their enemies?

“You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I destroyed those who hated me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I destroyed those who hated me.

For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

“How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him.”