'Face' in the Bible

I prayed, "O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down on the couch where Esther was lying. The king exclaimed, "Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!" As these words left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

"Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear.

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

"You say, 'He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

The godly face many dangers, but the Lord saves them from each one of them.

Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!

As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.

In the light of the king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds of the spring rain.

A wicked person shows boldness with his face, but as for the upright, he discerns his ways.

As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person.

Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.

The Lover to His Beloved: O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people's disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!

all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord's wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.

So the Lord says, 'I will most assuredly remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.'"

King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face.

You yourself will not escape his clutches, but will certainly be captured and handed over to him. You must confront the king of Babylon face to face and answer to him personally. Then you must go to Babylon.

You must not say, 'No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy's trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.'

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle.

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, "Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?"

Each of the cherubim had four faces: The first was the face of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, "Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!"

While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground because I have made you an object lesson to the house of Israel."

"The prince who is among them will raise his belongings onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.

For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

I will set my face against them -- although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

I will ignite a fire in Egypt; Syene will writhe in agony, Thebes will be broken down, and Memphis will face enemies every day.

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord."

a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings -- the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.

It was like the vision I saw when he came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

The ledge is 24? feet long and 24? feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10? inches, and its surrounding base 1? feet. Its steps face east."

Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed the glory of the Lord filling the Lord's temple, and I threw myself face down.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage to Daniel. He gave orders to offer sacrifice and incense to him.

Then all the color drained from the king's face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.

"This is the conclusion of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and the color drained from my face. But I kept the matter to myself."

As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

I listened to his voice, and as I did so I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

Look, the sovereign Lord is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob," says the Lord.

Someday these sinners will cry to the Lord for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds."

But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel's ruler on the side of his face.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord.

"I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) I will remove humanity from the face of the earth," says the Lord.