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19 Bible Verses About Abandonment

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Summary

  • Psalm 22:1, Psalm 13:1 and Psalm 88:18 put the charge of abandonment to God directly, and Psalm 88 ends on it with no turn to praise.
  • Jesus cried the first line of Psalm 22 from the cross (Matthew 27:46), after everyone had deserted him at his arrest (Mark 14:50).
  • The promise “I will never leave you nor forsake you” is spoken to Israel and to Joshua (Deuteronomy 31:6-8, Joshua 1:5) and repeated in Hebrews 13:5 as the reason to be content without the love of money.
  • Isaiah 49:15 answers Zion’s “The Lord has forsaken me” with a mother who may forget her baby, and Isaiah 54:7 speaks of “a brief moment” of abandonment followed by compassion.
  • Paul was deserted at his first defense (2 Timothy 4:16) and wrote that believers are “persecuted, but not abandoned” (2 Corinthians 4:9).

The Bible speaks about abandonment in two ways. People who feel left by God tell him so (Psalm 22:1, Psalm 13:1, Psalm 88:18), and God repeats one promise: “he will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6, Hebrews 13:5). Isaiah 49:15-16 answers Zion’s complaint, “The Lord has forsaken me,” with a mother who might forget her baby. People desert one another as well: the psalmist’s friend who shared his bread (Psalm 41:9), everyone who might have stood with Paul…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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