12 Bible Verses about Turning One's Back

Most Relevant Verses

Exodus 33:23

Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

Jeremiah 2:27

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

Jeremiah 32:33

And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

Joshua 7:8

O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

2 Samuel 22:41

By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

Psalm 18:40

By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

Psalm 21:12

Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

Exodus 23:27

I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

Judges 20:42

So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

Jeremiah 48:39

How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

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