'Forsaken' in the Bible
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
"For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
"Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.
They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
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- Abandon (107 instances)
- Desert (358 instances)
- Desolate (212 instances)
- Forsake (97 instances)
- Forsaken (117 instances)