Quotes About Abandonment

When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.

They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.í”

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.