14 Bible Verses about Being Forsaken
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Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is God's house forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and familiar with illness; and as one from whom men hide their face. He was despised, and we did not value him.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's children.
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
"For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
For these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears; because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
