14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.