14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

Then I reprimanded the officials and said, “Why is the house of God neglected?” So I gathered the Levites and singers together and restored them at their posts.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.

He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Have His promises ended for all time?

But Zion (Jerusalem in captivity) said, “The Lord has abandoned me,
And my Lord has forgotten me.”

“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
But with great compassion and mercy I will gather you [to Myself again].

“I weep for these things;
My eyes overflow with tears,
Because a comforter,
One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.
My children are desolate and perishing,
For the enemy has prevailed.”

Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.

We have become orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.

At my first trial no one supported me [as an advocate] or stood with me, but they all deserted me. May it not be counted against them [by God].

“For My people have committed two evils:
They have abandoned (rejected) Me,
The fountain of living water,
And they have carved out their own cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That cannot hold water.