14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

When, my own father and mother, had forsaken me, Then, Yahweh, took me up!

Therefore contended I with the deputies, and said, Wherefore is the house of God, forsaken? So I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

Young, have I been, moreover am old, - Yet have I not seen, A righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread:

Despised was he, and forsaken of men, Man of pains and familiar with sickness, - Yea, like one from whom the face is hidden, Despised, and we esteemed him not.

My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?

One estranged, have I become, to my own brethren, Yea, an alien, to the sons of my own mother;

Hath his lovingkindness, come to a perpetual end? Hath his word failed to generation after generation?

But Zion had said. Yahweh hath forsaken me, - Even, My Lord, hath forgotten me!

For a small moment, I forsook thee, - But, with abounding compassions, do I embrace thee:

For these things, am, I, weeping, Mine eye, mine eye, is running down with waters, for, far from me, is any who could comfort, could bring back my life, - My sons are amazed, for strong is the foe.

Yet have, ye, forsaken me, and served other gods, - therefore will I not again save you.

Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

In my first defence, no man, came in to help me, but, all, forsook me, - unto them, may it not be reckoned! -

For two wicked things, have my people committed, - Me, have they forsaken a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves cisterns broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.