12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

And I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back parts. But My face shall not be seen.

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

saying 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!

And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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

O, Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns their backs before their enemies?

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; I silenced those who hate me.

You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me.

For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.

I will send My fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

And they turned before the men of Israel, to the way of the wilderness. But the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! How has Moab turned the back with shame! So Moab shall be a cause of scorn, and he shall be a terror to all those around him.