19 Bible Verses about God Forgetting

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.”

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

Forsaken among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us so long?

Has God forgotten to be gracious,
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us;
Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we are brought very low.

Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

“For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And I will remember their sins no more.”

“And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”

“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins.

None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.

When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.