Quotes About Turning

All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

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

Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools.

And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

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

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

I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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, ëYou are my father,í and to a stone, ëYou gave me birth.í For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ëRise up and save us!í

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

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

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

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.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ëBehold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.í

The prophets told you, ëTurn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”

But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.

“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.”