14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said: Why has the house of God been given up? I got them together and put them in their places.

I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much.

([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

Zion replied: Jehovah has forsaken me and Jehovah has forgotten me!

For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.

For these things I weep. My eye streams with water because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy is strong.

You still left me and worshiped other gods. I am not going to rescue you again.

We are children without fathers. Our mothers are like widows.

At first no one defended me. They all abandoned me. May it not be counted against them.

My people have done two things wrong: (l) They have abandoned me, the fountain (source) of living waters. They have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Revelation 4:11)