Psalm 44:18

Israel's Complaint

¹⁷ All this has happened to us,
but we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our hearts have not turned back;
our steps have not strayed from Your path.
¹⁹ But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals
and have covered us with deepest darkness.

Turn Aside

Psalm 119:51

The arrogant constantly ridicule me,
but I do not turn away from Your instruction.

Psalm 119:157

My persecutors and foes are many.
I have not turned from Your decrees.

Psalm 78:57

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.

1 Kings 15:5

For David did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Job 23:11-12

My feet have followed in His tracks;
I have kept to His way and not turned aside.

Job 34:27

because they turned aside from following Him
and did not understand any of His ways

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.

Peace be with Israel.

Jeremiah 11:10

They have returned to the sins of their ancestors who refused to obey My words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke My covenant I made with their ancestors.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot’s wife!

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.