14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

So I quarreled with the prefects, and I said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them and set them at their station.

I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

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

Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is [his] promise ended throughout generations?

But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!"

I abandoned you {for a short} moment, but I will gather you with great compassion.

For these [things], I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears}; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because [the] enemy has prevailed.

Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.

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

At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, [the] source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.