14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.

I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:

He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?

But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water: for the comforter that should revive my soul is far from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy hath prevailed.

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.