60 Bible Verses about Forgetting
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For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:
I heard what the prophets said, prophesying a falsehood in my name, saying, I dreamed, I dreamed. How long is it in the heart of the prophets prophesying a lie, and prophesying the deceit of their heart? Reckoning to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they will recount a man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name in Baal.
And Jeshurun will be fat and will tread down: Thou wert fat, thou wert thick, thou wert covered; And he will reject God having made him, And he will despise the Rock of his deliverance. He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him. They will sacrifice to demons, not God; Gods they have not known them New ones came out from the midst; Your fathers not having feared them.read more.
Thou wilt forsake the Rock begetting thee, And thou wilt forget God setting thee free.
And the sons of Israel will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they will forget Jehovah their God, and they will serve the Baalims and the wooden pillars.
Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up;
And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.
And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt not know a God except me: and none saving but me. I knew thee in the desert, in the land of thirst According to their pasture, and they will be satiated; they were satiated, and their heart will be lifted up: for this they forgat me.
And in his being strong his heart was lifted up even to destruction: for he will transgress against Jehovah his God, and come in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.
Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.
And Noah will begin a man of the earth, and he will plant a vineyard. And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent
Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season Happy that servant which his lord, having come, shall find doing thus. Truly I say to you, That he shall set him over all his possessions.read more.
But if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays to come; And he should begin to strike the fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with those intoxicated; The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time? Happy that servant, which his Lord, having come, shall find so doing. Truly I say to you, that he will set him over all his possessions.read more.
And if that servant should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come; and should begin to strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated; The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving.
My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.
This the word which I spake to Pharaoh: what God did, he showed Pharaoh. Behold, seven years coming of great plenty, in all the land of Egypt And seven years of famine arose after them, and all the plenty was forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine consumed the land.read more.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land on account of the famine after this; for it shall be exceedingly heavy.
Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good. And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah: Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison.read more.
Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me.
And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.
He removed my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance truly turned aside from me. My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me. They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.
From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me. I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.
Thou wilt forsake the Rock begetting thee, And thou wilt forget God setting thee free.
And also all that generation were gathered to its fathers; and another generation will arise after them not knowing Jehovah, and also the works which he did to Israel And the sons of Israel will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and will serve the Baalims And they will forsake Jehovah the God of their fathers bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about them, and they will worship to them and provoke Jehovah.read more.
And they will forsake Jehovah, and will serve Baal and Ashtaroth.
And they will forget Jehovah their God, and he will sell them into the hand of Sisera, chief of the army of Razor, and into the hand of Philisteim, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they will war against them. And they will cry to Jehovah, and say, We sinned, for we forsook Jehovah, and we shall serve the Baalims and Ashtaroth: and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we will serve thee.
And they will forget his works and his wonders which he caused them to see. Before their fathers he did a wonder in the land of Egypt, the field of loading. He rent the sea and he will cause them to pass through; and he will cause the waters to stand as a heap.read more.
And he will guide them in a cloud the day, and all the night in a light of fire. He will rend the rocks in the desert, and give drink as the great abyss. And he will bring forth flowings from the rock, and bring down waters as rivers. And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land. And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul. And they will speak against God; they said, Will God be able to arrange a table in the desert? Behold, he struck the rock and waters will flow, and torrents will pour out; will he be able also to give bread? or will he prepare flesh for his people?
And it will be when Gideon died the sons of Israel will turn back, and will commit fornication after the Baalims, and they will set to them Baal of the covenant for their god. And the sons of Israel did not remember Jehovah their God, delivering them out of the hand of all their enemies from round about.
And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands, And they will refuse to hear, and they will not remember thy wonders which thou didst with them; and they will harden their necks, and they will give a head to turn back to their servitude in their perverseness: and thou a God of forgivenesses, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and great of mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.
Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge; And he will save them for sake of his name, to make known his powers. And he will rebuke in the sea of sedge, and it will be dried up: and he will lead them in the depths as the desertread more.
And he will save them from the hand of him hating, and he will redeem them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters will cover their enemies: one of them was not left And they will believe in his words, they will sing his praise. They hastened; they forget his works; they waited not for his counsel.
Understand now this, ye forgetting God, lest I shall rend and none delivering.
And they will forget Jehovah their God, and he will sell them into the hand of Sisera, chief of the army of Razor, and into the hand of Philisteim, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they will war against them.
For thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, and didst not remember the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou shalt sow it with vine shoots of the stranger. In the day of thy planting thou shalt hedge in, and in the morning thou shalt make thy seed fruitful: the harvest a heap in the day of thy possession and incurable pain.
Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
They hastened; they forget his works; they waited not for his counsel. And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste. And he will give to them their asking; and he will send leanness into their soul.
A voice was heard upon the naked hills, weepings, supplications of the sons of Israel: for they perverted their way, they forgot Jehovah their God.
And it was, if forgetting, thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and thou wentest after other gods, and served them and worshipped to them, I testified against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish. As the nations which Jehovah destroys before you, so shall ye be destroyed, because ye will not hear to the voice of Jehovah your God.
And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose.
And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces.
Watch to thyself lest thou shalt forget Jehovah who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants,
Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
And thou atest and wert satisfied, and didst bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he gave to thee. Watch to thyself lest thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, not watching his commands and his judgments and his laws which I command thee this day: Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert satisfied, and thou wilt build good houses and thou dwelt;read more.
And thy cattle and thy sheep shall multiply, and thy silver and thy gold shall multiply to thee, and all which is in thee shall multiply; And thy heart was lifted up and thou didst forget Jehovah thy God bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants;
And Jehovah cut out a covenant with them, and he commanded them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, and ye shall not worship to them, and ye shall not serve them, and ye shall not sacrifice to them. But Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an extended arm, him shall ye fear, and to him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye sacrifice. And the laws and the judgments, and the instruction and command which he wrote for you, ye shall watch to do all the days; and ye shall not fear other godsread more.
And the covenant which I cut out with you ye shall not forget; and ye shall not fear other gods
I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy? With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God?
Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, for what hast thou forsaken me?
To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I formed thee; a servant to me: thou Israel shalt not forget me.
Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee. Behold, upon the palms I engraved thee; thy walls before me continually.
For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.
Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old?
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.
Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.
How often they will embitter him in the desert! they will grieve him in the waste. And they will turn back and tempt God, and they broke in upon the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand the day which he redeemed them from the enemy;
He will turn back, he will compassionate us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Shall thy mercy be recounted in the grave, thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion? And to thee, O Jehovah, I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer anticipate thee.
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Forgetting » The reward for forgetting the lord
And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. read more.
Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name.
My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I
For this, thus said Jehovah: Ask now among the nations, who heard like as these things: the virgin of Israel did very horrible things. Shall the field cut loose from the rock the snow of Lebanon? or shall the cold flowing waters of an inundation be dried up? Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up; read more.
To set their land for a desolation, eternal hissings; every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall shake with his head. As the east wind I will scatter them before the face of the enemy; I will cause them to see the neck and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
And it was, if forgetting, thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and thou wentest after other gods, and served them and worshipped to them, I testified against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish. As the nations which Jehovah destroys before you, so shall ye be destroyed, because ye will not hear to the voice of Jehovah your God.
They will sacrifice to demons, not God; Gods they have not known them New ones came out from the midst; Your fathers not having feared them. Thou wilt forsake the Rock begetting thee, And thou wilt forget God setting thee free. And God will see and will reject, From the irritating of his sons and his daughters read more.
And he will say, I will hide my face from them; I will see what shall be after them: For they a generation of perverseness, Sons no faith in them. They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them. For a fire was kindled in mine anger. And it shall burn to the lowest hades, And it shall consume the land and its produce, And it shall burn the foundations of the mountains. I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
Forgetting » What the lord will forget
Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy. He will turn back, he will compassionate us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which thou didst swear to our fathers from the days of old.
For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people: And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their injustices will I remember no more.
O Jehovah, upon these they shall live, and for all of these the life of my spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause me to live. Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back
Thus said Jehovah giving a way in the sea, and a beaten path in the strong waters;, Bringing forth the chariot and the horse, the strength and the might together, they shall fall down, they shall not rise: they went out; they were quenched as tow. Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old? read more.
Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste. The beast of the field shall know me, the sea monster and the daughters of the ostrich: for I gave waters in the desert, rivers in the waste to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people I formed for myself; they shall recount my praise. And thou calledst me not, O Jacob; and thou overt weary of me, O Israel. Thou broughtest not to me the sheep of thy burnt-offering, and thou honoredst me not with thy sacrifices I caused thee not to serve with a gift, and I wearied thee not with frankincense. Thou broughtest not for me a buying with silver, thou didst not satiate me with the fat of thy sacrifices also thou causedst me to serve with thy sins, thou didst weary me with thine iniquities. I, I am he wiping away thy transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people. And they shall teach no more a man his neighbor and a man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they all shall know me to their small and even to their great, says Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and to their sin I will have no more remembrance
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. read more.
Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name.
Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water? While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass. So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish. read more.
Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up. It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden. His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones. If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not
And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth? And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee. If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery. read more.
Thou sentest thy month into evil, and thy tongue will contrive deceit Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block. These things thou didst and I was silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall be like to thee: I will reprove thee, and I will set it in order before thine eyes. Understand now this, ye forgetting God, lest I shall rend and none delivering.
To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten. My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.
Forgetting » What shall be forgotten
And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. read more.
Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes. For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart
Forgetting » Who shall be forgotten
They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths. The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief. And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face. read more.
To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death. He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion will be cursed in the earth: he will not see the way of the vineyards. Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning. The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
Forgetting » The nations that forget God
The unjust shall be turned away into hades, all the nations forgetting God.
Topics on Forgetting
Forgetting God
Deuteronomy 4:9Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
Forgetting People
Genesis 40:23And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.
Forgetting Things
Genesis 27:45Until thy brother's anger turning away from thee, and forgetting what thou didst to him: and I have sent and have taken thee from thence, lest I shall be bereaved of you two in one day.
Not Forgetting
Deuteronomy 31:21And it was when many evils and afflictions shall find him, and this song testified before him for a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed; for I knew his formation which he did this day, before I shall bring him to the land which I sware