23 Bible Verses about Forgetting People

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. In fact he forgot him.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. By his wisdom he delivered the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man.

The memory of him perishes from the earth. He has no name in the street.

My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me.

Take harp and walk about the city, O forgotten prostitute. Pluck the strings skillfully; sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

All your lovers have forgotten you, and they do not want you anymore. I have punished you as an enemy would. I have corrected you as a cruel person would. You are very wicked, and you have many sins.

Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the lifespan of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers forget, I will not forget you.

The womb forgets them. The worm finds them sweet. They are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house.

Neither the wise man nor the foolish man will be remembered for long. All that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. Death comes to both the wise and the foolish.

I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.

The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.

I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

But if I say: I will not remember him or speak anymore in his name, then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in. I cannot endure it.

I will make your lewdness and your fornication brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

and I will give it for a possession along with the Ammonites to the sons of the east, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations.

You will be destroyed by fire. Your blood will be shed in your own country. No one will remember you any more. Jehovah has spoken!'

I would have said: 'I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.'

They say: Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

He will deliver their kings into your hand. You will make their name perish from under heaven. They will not be able to stand before you for you will destroy them.

Jehovah confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

I answered them: The God of heaven will be our help; so we, his servants, will go on with our building. But you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.