14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

Then reproved I the rulers, and said, "Why forsake we the house of God?" But I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.

{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

Is his mercy clean gone? Is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore?

Then shall Zion say, "God hath forsaken me, and the LORD hath forgotten me."

A little while have I forsaken thee, but with great mercifulness shall I take thee up unto me.

{Ayin} Therefore do I weep, and mine eyes gush out of water: for the comforter that should quicken me is far from me. My children are driven away. For why? The enemy hath gotten the over hand.

And for all that, ye have forsaken me, and serve strange gods, wherefore I will help you no more.

We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.

At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.