Quotes About Abandonment

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earthís ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one anotherís flesh.”

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.