23 Bible Verses about Forgetting People

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

"Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered."

All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,

You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken."

I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"

They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"

And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Then I replied to them, "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem."