12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face must 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.'

You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.

have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.

O Jehovah, what shall I say, when Israel turned their backs before its enemies!

By you they turn their backs and run. Those who hate me are silenced.

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

They turn their backs and flee because you aim your bow at their faces.

I will send my terror ahead of you and throw any nation you meet into a panic. I will make all your enemies flee from you.

They retreated from the Israelites. They ran toward the open country and could not escape. They were caught between the main army and the men now coming out of the city. They were destroyed.

Moab has been shattered! Cry out! Moab has been disgraced. It is in ruins and all the surrounding nations make fun of it.' I Jehovah have spoken.