14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

Even if my father and mother abandon me,
the Lord cares for me.

Therefore, I rebuked the officials, saying, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts.

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?

I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

Has His faithful love ceased forever?
Is His promise at an end for all generations?

Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;
The Lord has forgotten me!”

“I deserted you for a brief moment,
but I will take you back with great compassion.

ע AyinI weep because of these things;
my eyes flow with tears.
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.

But you have abandoned Me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again.

We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are widows.

At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

For My people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.