14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking "Why is the temple of God neglected?" Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

For the music director; according to the tune "Morning Doe;" a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?

"Zion said, 'The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.'

"For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.

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

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me -- may they not be held accountable for it.

"Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water."