'Back' in the Bible

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan told the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won't go back to seeing good things.

It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

Thick clouds cover him so he can't see as he walks back and forth at heaven's horizon.

He sinks his shaft far from human habitations, in a place forgotten by explorers; they hang on harnesses as they swing back and forth.

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

"The Almighty was still with me back then, and my children were still around me.

to bring back his soul from the Pit; to light him with the light of life."

If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,

"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know!

You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great!

When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish before you.

The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.

You have made my enemies turn their back to me, and I will destroy those who hate me.

Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.

They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.

The wicked borrow but never pay back; but the righteous are generous and give.

But you, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up so that I may pay them back!

May those who seek to kill me be publicly humiliated. May those who take pleasure in my harm be turned back in humiliation.

May those who say "Aha! Aha!" be turned back because of their shameful deeds.

He beat back his adversaries, permanently disgracing them.

Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.

Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword and did not support him in battle.

Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back.

Back up your servant in a positive way; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

When the LORD brought back Zion's exiles, we were like dreamers.

Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds."

Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.

You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back. I will pay you tomorrow," when you have cash with you.

Those who give freely gain even more; others hold back what they owe, becoming even poorer.

What a fool says brings a rod to his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

The lazy person buries his hand in his dish and doesn't bother to bring it back to his mouth.

All day long he continues to crave, while the righteous person gives without holding back.

Don't say, "I'll do to him like he did to me, I'll be sure to pay him back for what he did."

A whip is for the horses, a bridle is for the donkey, a rod is for the back of fools.

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and the stone will come back on whoever starts it rolling.

The sun rises, the sun sets, then rushes back to where it arose.

The wind blows southward, then northward, constantly circulating, and the wind comes back again in its courses.

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

He made its posts of silver, its back of gold. Its seat was purple, and its interior was lovingly inlaid by the young women of Jerusalem.

Dull the mind of this people, deafen their ears, and blind their eyes. By doing so, they won't see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed."

For the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has planned, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

The watchman replies: "Morning is coming, but also the night. If you want to ask, then ask; come back again.'"

and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Yet he is also wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words, but will rise up against the house of those who practice evil and against anyone who assists people who work iniquity.

Turn back to him, yes to him whom your people have so greatly betrayed, you people of Israel.

Your insolence has reached my ears, so I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I'll make you turn back on the road by which you came.

Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards."'" Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.

Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.

"I have certainly stayed silent for a long time; I've kept still and held myself back. Now, like a woman giving birth, I'll cry out. All of a sudden I'll gasp and pant.

Those who trust in carved idols will turn back and be completely disappointed, along with those who say to metal images, "You are our gods.'"

But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become prey, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, "Send them back!'

I'll say to the north, "Give them up'! and to the south, "Don't keep them back!' Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth

who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;

"And now, says the LORD, who formed you from the womb as his servant to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him and I am honored in the LORD's sight and my God has been my help

he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel and bring back those of Jacob I have preserved. I'll also make you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.

My Lord GOD has opened my ears, and I did not rebel; I did not shrink back.

I gave my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not turn away my face from insults and spitting.

But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, "Lie down, so we can step over you,' so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over."

"Enlarge the location of your tent, let the curtains of your dwellings be stretched wide, and don't hold back. Lengthen your cords; strengthen your stakes.

For the LORD has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man's youth when she is cast off," says the LORD your God.

"O afflicted one, passed back and forth, and not comforted, Look! I am about to set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

"For you will go out in joy, and come back with peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees in the fields will clap their hands.

Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will.

"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly; and your vindication will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will guard your back.

I'll drive back justice, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth has fallen in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Where are the yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are held back from me.

Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage.

LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely?

Watch out! It stands written before me: "I won't keep silent, but I will pay back in full; I'll indeed repay into their laps

"Listen to that uproar in the city! Listen to that noise from the Temple! It is the sound of the LORD paying back retribution to his enemies!

"Take notice! The LORD will come with fire, and his chariot will be like a whirlwind, to pay back his anger yes, his anger! in fury, and his menacing rebukes in flames of fire.

who say to a tree, "You are my father,' and to a stone, "You gave birth to me.' They have turned their back to me, but not their faces. In the time of their trouble, they'll say, "Rise up! Deliver us!'"

"I said, "How I wanted to treat you like children, and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of the nations.' I said, "You will call me, my father, and won't turn back from following me.'

"Turn back, unfaithful people, and I'll heal your unfaithfulness." "Look, we're coming to you because you are the LORD our God.

I looked at the mountains; they were quaking, and all the hills moved back and forth.

Because of this, the land will mourn, and the heavens above will be dark. Because I have spoken and decided, I won't turn back from doing it."

Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.

I'm full of the wrath of the LORD, and I'm tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the groups of young men gathered together. Indeed, both husband and wife will be caught in it, the old and the very old.

"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again?

They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors of old who refused to listen to my words. They followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant which I made with their ancestors."

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I'll take you back and you will stand before me. If you speak what is worthwhile, instead of what is worthless, then you will be my spokesman. People will turn to you, but you aren't to turn to them.

Rather it will be said, "As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelis up from the land of the north and from all the lands to which the LORD had banished them.' I'll bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.

"Like the east wind, I'll scatter them before the enemy. I'll show them my back and not my face, on the day of their downfall.'"

and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.

"I'll gather the remnant of my flock from all the countries where I've driven them, and bring them back to their pasture where they'll be fruitful and increase in numbers.

The LORD's anger won't turn back until he has accomplished what he intended to do. In the future you will clearly understand it.

If they had stood in my council and had delivered my words to my people, then they would have turned them back from their evil way, from their evil deeds."

I'll look at them with good intentions, and I'll bring them back to this land. I'll build them up. I won't tear them down; I'll plant them and not rip them up.

and within two years I'll bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's Temple that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place and carried to Babylon.

I'll bring back Jehoiakim's son Jeconiah, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon to this place,' declares the LORD, "for I'll break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'"

The prophet Jeremiah said, "May the LORD truly do this thing! May the LORD fulfill the words that you prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD's Temple and all the exiles from Babylon to this place.

"For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.

I'll be found by you,' declares the LORD, "and I'll restore your security and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I've driven you,' declares the LORD. "I'll bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.'

Indeed, the time will come,' declares the LORD, "when I'll restore the security of my people Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. "I'll bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors, and they'll possess it.'"

The fierce anger of the LORD won't turn back until he has accomplished and established the plan of his heart. In the days to come, you will understand this.

I'm about to gather my people from all the lands where I've driven them in my anger, wrath, and great indignation. I'll bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.