'Turn' in the Bible

Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive? (Selah)

Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping!

May all my enemies be humiliated and absolutely terrified! May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.

I chase my enemies and catch them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

Turn toward me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and oppressed!

Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.

Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it!

Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

May the Lord protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!

Then I will teach rebels your merciful ways, and sinners will turn to you.

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!

Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us and we will pray to you!

Turn toward me and have mercy on me! Give your servant your strength! Deliver your slave!

You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

May your loyal followers turn to me, those who know your rules.

I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.

Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

Turn toward me and extend mercy to me, as you typically do to your loyal followers.

The enemies who chase me are numerous. Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.

If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"

Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways -- do not wander into her pathways;

"Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.

Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.

The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.

The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.

Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved -- be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountain gorges.

Turn your eyes away from me -- they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

The Lover to His Beloved: Turn, turn, O Perfect One! Turn, turn, that I may stare at you! The Beloved to Her Lover: Why do you gaze upon the Perfect One like the dance of the Mahanaim?

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

"I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals and covered with pools of stagnant water. I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom," says the Lord who commands armies.

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their prayers and heal them.

In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.

Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel."

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'"

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth's remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

You said, 'I will rule forever as permanent queen!' You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. For I have made my purpose known and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out."

The Lord said to me, "Tell them, 'The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

"I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wasteland.

You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.

I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them."

I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it!

The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. In days to come you people will come to understand this clearly.

But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

He said through them, 'Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession.

All nations must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.

Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. In days to come you will come to understand this.

The Lord says, "At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow.

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.

I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.

The defenders of the city will go out and fight with the Babylonians. But they will only fill those houses and buildings with the dead bodies of the people that I will kill in my anger and my wrath. That will happen because I have decided to turn my back on this city on account of the wicked things they have done.

Before Jeremiah could turn to leave, the captain of the guard added, "Go back to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed to govern the towns of Judah. Go back and live with him among the people. Or go wherever else you choose." Then the captain of the guard gave Jeremiah some food and a present and let him go.

I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.'

Even her mercenaries will prove to be like pampered, well-fed calves. For they too will turn and run away. They will not stand their ground when the time for them to be destroyed comes, the time for them to be punished.

Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies' horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear.

Oh, how shattered Moab will be! Oh, how her people will wail! Oh, how she will turn away in shame! Moab will become an object of ridicule, a terrifying sight to all the nations that surround her."

Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, you people who live in Dedan. For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them.

The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee. Panic will grip them. Pain and anguish will seize them like a woman in labor.

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper's net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.