14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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

I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was 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 so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.

Is his mercy wholly gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my 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; my eye, my eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

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

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.