28 Bible Verses about Forgetting Things

until your brother’s rage turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?”

After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.

My soul has been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is.

ו VavHe has done violence to His temple
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.

Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, the evils of Judah’s kings, the evils of their wives, your own evils, and the evils of your wives that were committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

They will feel remorse for their disgrace and all the unfaithfulness they committed against Me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them.

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Tyre
for three crimes, even four,
because they handed over
a whole community of exiles to Edom
and broke a treaty of brotherhood.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does good works—this person will be blessed in what he does.

You said, ‘I will be the mistress forever.’
You did not take these things to heart
or think about their outcome.

When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days”—the Lord’s declaration—“no one will say any longer, ‘The ark of the Lord’s covenant.’ It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. It will never again be made.

If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

Otherwise, they will drink,
forget what is decreed,
and pervert justice for all the oppressed.

Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty
and remember his trouble no more.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”

“Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;
don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced.
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
and you will no longer remember
the disgrace of your widowhood.

and said to him, “My lord, don’t hold me guilty, and don’t remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

for he does not often consider the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

The disciples reached the other shore, and they had forgotten to take bread.

They had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

She forgets that a foot may crush them
or that some wild animal may trample them.

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.