14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

And I strive with the prefects, and say, 'Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station;

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?

And Zion saith, 'Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.'

In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,

For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

and ye -- ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you.

Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.