Turned

During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

…and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all

…that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.

When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “This is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him.

And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt. So Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

…because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

…as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

…because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

…whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

…who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

…who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

…say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

…had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.

But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.

…and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.

“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”

Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.

Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”