100 Bible Verses About Abandonment

And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.

Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

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

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.