Abandonment

God is abandoned

God’s people deliberately abandon him

Jeremiah 2:13 KJV 1900

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

See also Dt 32:15; Jdg 2:12; 1 Ki 9:9; 2 Ch 13:11; Is 1:4; Je 17:13

God’s people abandon his law

Jeremiah 9:12–14 KJV 1900

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, For what the land perisheth And is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, And have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, And after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

See also 1 Ki 18:18; 2 Ch 12:1; Ps 89:30; Ps 119:53; Pr 4:2; Pr 4:6; Heb 10:28

God’s people abandon his covenant

Deuteronomy 29:25 KJV 1900

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

See also Je 22:9; Je 31:32; Da 11:30

God’s people abandon his temple

2 Ch 24:18; 2 Ch 29:6

Those who abandon the gospel

1 Timothy 4:1 KJV 1900

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

See also Heb 10:26; Heb 10:29; Re 2:4

God abandons those who forsake him

2 Chronicles 24:20 KJV 1900

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

See also Nu 32:15 Moses warns the Transjordan tribes; Dt 31:17 Israel’s rebellion predicted; Dt 32:30

The Lord abandoned Saul:

1 Sa 18:12; 1 Sa 28:15

1 Ki 9:7; 1 Ch 28:9; Ne 9:28; Is 2:6; Je 12:7; La 2:7

God shows mercy to those who have been justly abandoned

Isaiah 54:7 KJV 1900

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; But with great mercies will I gather thee.

See also Ne 9:19; Ne 9:28; Ne 9:31; Je 51:5

Those who feel abandoned by God

God’s people

Lamentations 5:20 KJV 1900

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

See also Ps 22:1; Ps 43:2; Ps 71:11; Ps 74:1; Ps 89:38

Their prayers

Psalm 38:21–22 KJV 1900

Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

See also 1 Ki 8:57; Ps 27:9; Ps 71:9; Ps 71:18; Ps 119:8; Je 14:9

Jesus Christ’s feelings of abandonment

Matthew 27:46 KJV 1900

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

See also Ps 22:1; Ac 2:27; Ps 16:10

God promises never to abandon his people

Deuteronomy 31:8 KJV 1900

And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

See also Le 26:44; Dt 4:31; Dt 31:6; 1 Sa 12:22; Ps 37:25; Ps 37:28; Ps 94:14; Is 49:14–16; Mt 28:20; 2 Co 4:9; Heb 13:5

Examples of people who were abandoned

Ge 16:7–8 Hagar; 1 Sa 30:13 a slave; Is 49:15 a newborn baby; Eze 16:3–6 Jerusalem; Ac 14:19 Paul