'Bent' in the Bible
And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.
And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.
Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.
Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;
Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.
And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, It is an old man coming up covered with a robe. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and with his face bent down to the earth he gave him honour.
The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.
But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.
But may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this one thing: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon for worship there, supported on my arm, and my head is bent in the house of Rimmon; when his head is bent in the house of Rimmon, may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this thing.
And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.
And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.
Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship.
And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.
That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.
For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.
Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.
His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.
At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.
Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.
For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.
And there was a woman who had had a disease for eighteen years; she was bent, and was not able to make herself straight.
And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.
So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.
But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,