'Turn' in the Bible

O sons of men, how long will my honor and glory be [turned into] shame?How long will you [my enemies] love worthless (vain, futile) things and seek deception and lies? Selah.

Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly horrified;Let them turn back, let them suddenly be ashamed [of what they have done].

If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them;And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.

For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,

Turn to me [Lord] and be gracious to me,For I am alone and afflicted.

Do not hide Your face from me,Do not turn Your servant away in anger;You have been my help;Do not abandon me nor leave me,O God of my salvation!

The Lord will sustain and strengthen him on his sickbed;In his illness, You will restore him to health.

You make us turn back from the enemy,And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;This I know, that God is for me.

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is sweet and good and comforting;According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.

May You increase my greatness (honor)And turn to comfort me.

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemiesAnd turn My hand against their adversaries;

I will hear [with expectant hope] what God the Lord will say,For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones—But let them not turn again to folly.

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant,And save the son of Your handmaid.

You turn man back to dust,And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

He has turned back their own wickedness upon themAnd will destroy them by means of their own evil;The Lord our God will wipe them out.

I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes.I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path];It will not grasp hold of me.

You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,So that they will not return to cover the earth.

Therefore He said He would destroy them,[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

What ails you, O sea, that you flee?O Jordan, that you turn back?

Turn my eyes away from vanity [all those worldly, meaningless things that distract—let Your priorities be mine],And restore me [with renewed energy] in Your ways.

Turn away my reproach which I dread,For Your ordinances are good.

May those who fear You [with submissive wonder] turn to me,Even those who have known Your testimonies.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God],The Lord will lead them away with those who do evil.Peace be upon Israel.

Restore our captivity, O Lord,As the stream-beds in the South (the Negev) [are restored by torrents of rain].

For the sake of Your servant David,Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

The Lord swore to DavidA truth from which He will not turn back:“One of your descendants I will set upon your throne.