12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

Then will I take away my hand, and thou shalt see behind me, But, my face, must not be seen.

Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy, - The back and not the face, will I let them see in the day of their distress.

Saying, to a tree, My father, art thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back and not the face, - But in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!

Thus have they turned unto me the back, and not the face, - Though I instructed them, betimes, instructing them, Yet have they not been hearkening, to receive correction;

So he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and lo! at the opening of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, - their backs towards the temple of Yahweh and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward unto the Sun.

Oh My Lord, - what shall I say, after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?

And, as for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, - yea, them who hated me, that I might destroy them:

As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.

For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow-strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.

My terror, will I send before thee, and will confound all the people amongst whom thou shalt come, and will deliver up all thine enemies unto thee as they flee.

And, when they turned before the men of Israel unto the way of the desert, the battle, over took them, - while, as for them that came out of the cities, they began to destroy them in their midst: -

How it is broken down! They have howled, How hath Moab turned the back, for shame, - So shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all round about him.