What to Me is a multitude of sacrifices, when you come to see the faces of Jehovah? Isa. i 11, 12.

My heart said, Seek My faces; Thy faces, O Jehovah, do I seek Ps. xxvii 8.

We shall shout to the Rock of our salvation, we shall come before His faces in confession Ps. xcv 1, 2.

My soul thirsts for the living God, when shall I come that I may be seen by the faces of God? I shall yet confess to Him the salvations of His faces Ps. xlii 3, 6.

Emptily they shall not see My faces Exod. xxiii 15.

To come to pray earnestly to the faces of Jehovah Zech. viii 21, 22; Mal. i 9.

Make Thy faces shine upon Thy servant Ps. xxxi 16 [H.B. 17].

Who has shown us what is good? Lift up upon us the light of Thy faces, O Jehovah Ps. iv 6 [H.B. 7].

O Jehovah, they shall walk in the light of Thy faces Ps. lxxxix 15 [H.B. 16].

O God, cause Thy faces to shine that we may be saved Ps. lxxx 3, 7, 19 [H.B. 4, 8, 20].

God be merciful unto us and bless us, and cause His faces to shine upon us Ps. lxvii 1 [H.B. 2].

Jehovah bless thee and keep thee, Jehovah cause His faces to shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee, Jehovah lift His faces upon thee and give thee peace Num. vi 24-26.

Thou hidest them in the secret of Thy faces Ps. xxxi 20 [H.B. 21].

Thou hast set our secret in the light of Thy faces Ps. xc 8.

Jehovah spoke to Moses, My faces shall go; Moses said, If Thy faces go not, make us not to go down from hence Exod. xxxiii 14, 15.

The bread upon the table in the tabernacle was called the bread of faces Exod. xxv 30; Num. iv 7.

[2] It is also frequently said that Jehovah has hidden, also that He has turned away [His] faces, as in these passages:-

On account of their wickedness I have hidden My faces from them Jer. xxxiii 5; Ezek. vii 22.

Your sins have hidden God's faces from you Isa. lix 2.

The faces of Jehovah shall no more regard them Lam. iv 16.

Jehovah shall hide His faces from them as they have rendered their works evil Micah iii 4.

Thou didst hide Thy faces Ps. xxx 7 [H.B. 8]; xliv 24 [H.B. 25]; civ 29.

I will forsake them, and I will hide My faces from them, biding I will hide My faces for all the evil that they have done Deut. xxxi 17, 18;

besides elsewhere, as Isa. viii 17; Ezek. xxxix 23, 28, 29; Ps. xiii 1 [H.B. 2]; xxii 24 [H.B. 25]; [xxvii] 8, 9; lxix 17 [H.B. 18]; lxxxviii 14 [H.B. 15]; cii 2 [H.B. 3]; cxliii 7; Deut. xxxii 20. [3] In the opposite sense by 'the faces of Jehovah' is signified anger and aversion. This is because an evil man turns away from the Lord, and when he turns himself away it appears to him as if the Lord turns away and is angry, as can be established from these passages:-

I have set My faces against the city for evil Jer. xxi 10; xliv 11.

I will set My faces against that man and will devastate him Ezek. xiv 7, 8.

I will set My faces against them, and fire shall devour them when I put My faces against them Ezek. xv 7.

He who eats any blood, I will set My faces against that soul Lev. xvii 10.

At the rebuke of Thy faces they have perished Ps. lxxx 16 [H.B. 17].

The faces of Jehovah are against those doing evil Ps. xxxiv 16 [H.B. 17].

I will send an Angel before thee, beware of His faces, for He does not bear your transgression Exod. xxiii 20, 21.

Let Thine enemies be scattered, and let those hating Thee flee from before Thy faces Num. x 35.

I saw the One sitting upon the throne, from whose face the heaven and the land fled away Rev. xx 11.

That no one can see the Lord as He is in Himself, as was said above, is plain from these words:-

Jehovah said unto Moses, Thou canst not see My faces, because a man shall not see Me and live Exod. xxxiii 18-23.

Yet that He has been seen, and they did live because it was by means of an angel, is plain from Gen. xxxii 30 [H.B. 31]; Judg. Xiii 22, 23; and elsewhere. * Here and in all quotations from the Old Testament in this paragraph the plural 'faces' is used in accordance with the Hebrew idiom.