12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

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

Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, 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 say, 'Arise and save us!'

They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of 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, worshiping the sun toward the east.

O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

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

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

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

How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him."