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The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be
alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." [GEN 2:18]
But not in one year will I drive them all out before you; else the land will become so desolate that the wild beasts will multiply against you. Instead, I will drive them out little by little before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land.
[EX 23:29-30]
You yourselves I will scatter among the nations at the point of
my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities
deserted. [LEV 26:33]
Since the LORD, your God, is a merciful God, he will not
abandon and destroy you, nor forget the covenant which under oath
he made with your fathers. [DEUT 4:31]
The five Amorite kings, of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon, united all their forces and marched against Gibeon, where they took up siege positions. Thereupon, the men of Gibeon sent an appeal to Joshua in his camp at Gilgal: "Do not abandon your servants. Come up here quickly and save us. Help us, because all the Amorite kings of the mountain country have joined forces against us." [JOSH
10:5-6]
At that time Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and
the half-tribe of Manasseh and said to them: "You have done
all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, commanded you, and have
obeyed every command I gave you. For many years now you have not
once abandoned your kinsmen, but have faithfully carried out the
commands of the LORD, your God. Since, therefore, the LORD, your
God, has settled your kinsmen as he promised them, you may now
return to your tents beyond the Jordan; to your own land, which
Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave you. But be very careful to
observe the precept and law which Moses, the servant of the LORD,
enjoined upon you: love the LORD, your God; follow him faithfully;
keep his commandments; remain loyal to him; and serve him with
your whole heart and soul." Joshua then blessed them and sent
them away to their own tents.
[JOSH 22:1-6]
But once the rest of that generation were gathered to their fathers, and a later generation arose that did not know the LORD, or what he had done for Israel,
the Israelites offended the LORD by serving the Baals. Abandoning
the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had led them out of the
land of Egypt, they followed the other gods of the various nations
around them, and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD.
Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the
Ashtaroth, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, and he
delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them. He allowed
them to fall into the power of their enemies round about whom they
were no longer able to withstand. Whatever they undertook, the
LORD turned into disaster for them, as in his warning he had sworn
he would do, till they were in great distress.
[JUDG 2:10-15]
"My Lord," Gideon said to him, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fathers told us when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' For now the LORD has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian." The LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you."
[JUDG 6:13-14]
At a good old age Gideon, son of Joash, died and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. But after Gideon was dead, the Israelites again abandoned themselves to the Baals, making Baal of Berith their god and forgetting the LORD, their God, who had delivered them from the power of their enemies all around them.
[JUDG 8:32-34]
But Ruth said, "Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you!
for wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge,
your people shall be my people, and your God my God." [RUTH 1:16]
For the sake of his own great name the LORD will not abandon
his people, since the LORD himself chose to make you his people.
[1SAM 12:22]
Samuel then said to Saul, "Why do you disturb me by
conjuring me up?" Saul replied: "I am in great straits,
for the Philistines are waging war against me and God has
abandoned me. Since he no longer answers me through prophets or in
dreams, I have called you to tell me what I should do." To
this Samuel said: "But why do you ask me, if the LORD has
abandoned you and is with your neighbor? The LORD has done to you
what he foretold through me: he has torn the kingdom from your
grasp and has given it to your neighbor David. Because you
disobeyed the LORD'S directive and would not carry out his fierce
anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today." [1SAM
28:15-18]
Then David asked him, "To whom do you belong, and where do
you come from?" He replied: "I am an Egyptian, the slave
of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me because I fell sick three
days ago today." [1SAM 30:13]
He answered: "I have been most zealous for the LORD, the
God of hosts, but the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, torn
down your altars, and put your prophets to the sword. I alone am
left, and they seek to take my life." [1KGS 19:10]
He replied, "I have been most zealous for the LORD, the
God of hosts. But the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, torn
down your altars, and put your prophets to the sword. I alone am
left, and they seek to take my life." [1KGS 19:14]
The LORD had caused the army of the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses, the din of a large army, and they had reasoned among themselves, "The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the borderlands to fight us." Then in the twilight they fled, abandoning their tents, their horses, and their asses, the whole camp just as it was, and fleeing for their lives.
[2KGS 7:6-7]
For the LORD saw the very bitter affliction of Israel, where
there was neither slave nor freeman, no one at all to help Israel.
[2KGS 14:26]
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. He followed exactly the path his father had trod, serving and worshiping the idols his father had served. He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not follow the path of the
LORD. [2KGS 21:19-22]
But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the
desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army. [2KGS 25:5]
"As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father
and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing soul, for the
LORD searches all hearts and understands all the mind's thoughts.
If you seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if you
abandon him, he will cast you off forever." [1CHRON 28:9]
Then David said to his son Solomon: "Be firm and
steadfast; go to work without fear or discouragement, for the LORD
God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or abandon you
before you have completed all the work for the service of the
house of the LORD." [1CHRON 28:20]
After Rehoboam had consolidated his rule and had become
powerful, he abandoned the law of the LORD, he and all Israel with
him. [2CHRON 12:1]
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the commanders
of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and
said to them: "Thus says the LORD: 'You have abandoned me,
and therefore I have abandoned you to the power of Shishak.'"
[2CHRON
12:5]
He went forth to meet Asa and said to him: "Hear me, Asa
and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with
him, and if you seek him he will be present to you; but if you
abandon him, he will abandon you." [2CHRON 15:2]
Then the spirit of God possessed Zechariah, son of Jehoiada the
priest. He took his stand above the people and said to them:
"God says, 'Why are you transgressing the LORD'S commands, so
that you cannot prosper? Because you have abandoned the LORD, he
has abandoned you.'" [2CHRON 24:20]
Though the Aramean force came with few men, the LORD
surrendered a very large force into their power, because Judah had
abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers. So punishment was
meted out to Joash. [2CHRON 24:24]
For Pekah, son of Remaliah, slew one hundred and twenty
thousand of Judah in a single day, all of them valiant men,
because they had abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers.
[2CHRON 28:6]
Our fathers acted faithlessly and did evil in the eyes of the
LORD, our God. They abandoned him, turned away their faces from
the LORD'S dwelling, and turned their backs on him. [2CHRON 29:6]
'Because they have abandoned me and have offered incense to
other gods, provoking me by every deed that they have performed,
my anger is ablaze against this place and cannot be extinguished.'
[2CHRON 34:25]
For slaves we are, but in our servitude our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem. But now, O our God, what can we say after all this? For we have abandoned your commandments, which you gave through your servants the prophets: the land which you are entering to take as your possession is a land unclean with the filth of the peoples of the land, with the abominations with which they have filled it from one end to the other in their uncleanness.
[EZRA 9:9-11]
"As soon as they had relief, they would go back to doing
evil in your sight. Then again you abandoned them to the power of
their enemies, who crushed them. Then they cried out to you, and
you heard them from heaven and delivered them according to your
mercy, many times over." [NEH 9:28]
So he called his son Tobiah; and when he came, he said to him:
"My son, when I die, give me a decent burial. Honor your
mother, and do not abandon her as long as she lives. Do whatever
pleases her, and do not grieve her spirit in any way." [TOBIT 4:3]
You made Adam and you gave him his wife Eve to be his help and
support; and from these two the human race descended. You said,
'It is not good for the man to be alone; let us make him a partner
like himself.' [TOBIT 8:6]
All the nations of the world shall be converted and shall offer God true worship; all shall abandon their idols which have deceitfully led them into error, and shall bless the God of the ages in righteousness. Because all the Israelites who are to be saved in those days will truly be mindful of God, they shall be gathered together and go to Jerusalem; in security shall they dwell forever in the land of Abraham, which will be given over to them. Those who sincerely love God shall rejoice, but those who become guilty of sin shall completely disappear from the land. [TOBIT
14:6-7]
They formerly dwelt in Mesopotamia, for they did not wish to
follow the gods of their forefathers who were born in the land of
the Chaldeans. Since they abandoned the way of their ancestors,
and acknowledged with divine worship the God of heaven, their
forefathers expelled them from the presence of their gods. So they
fled to Mesopotamia and dwelt there a long time. [JDTH 5:7-8]
Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, likewise had recourse to the Lord. Taking off her splendid garments, she put on garments of distress and mourning. In place of her precious ointments she covered her head with dirt and ashes. She afflicted her body severely; all her festive adornments were put aside, and her hair was wholly disheveled. Then she prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: "My Lord, our King, you alone are God. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, for I am taking my life in my hand." [ESTH
C:12-15]
Be mindful of us, O Lord. Manifest yourself in the time of our distress and give me courage, King of gods and Ruler of every power. Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to hatred for our enemy, so that he and those who are in league with him may perish. Save us by your power, and help me, who am alone and have no one but you, O
Lord. [ESTH C:23-25]
In those days there appeared in Israel men who were breakers of
the law, and they seduced many people, saying: "Let us go and
make an alliance with the Gentiles all around us; since we
separated from them, many evils have come upon us." The
proposal was agreeable; some from among the people promptly went
to the king, and he authorized them to introduce the way of living
of the Gentiles. Thereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem
according to the Gentile custom. They covered over the mark of
their circumcision and abandoned the holy covenant; they allied
themselves with the Gentiles and sold themselves to wrongdoing.
[1MACC 1:11-15]
Because of them the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away, and she became the abode of strangers.
She became a stranger to her own offspring, and her children forsook her. Her sanctuary was as desolate as a wilderness;
her feasts were turned into mourning,
Her sabbaths to shame, her honor to contempt. [1MACC 1:38-39]
Many of the people, those who abandoned the law, joined them
and committed evil in the land. Israel was driven into hiding,
wherever places of refuge could be found. [1MACC 1:52-53]
Then Judas and his brothers said, "Now that our enemies have been crushed, let us go up to purify the sanctuary and rededicate it." So the whole army assembled, and went up to Mount Zion. They found the sanctuary desolate, the altar desecrated, the gates burnt, weeds growing in the courts as in a forest or on some mountain, and the priests' chambers demolished. [1MACC
4:36-38]
Only in Beth-zur did some remain of those who had abandoned the
law and the commandments, for they used it as a place of refuge.
[1MACC 10:14]
It was for the sake of these, for the sake of Israel, that all
my brothers have perished, and I alone am left. [1MACC 13:4]
Pursued by Antiochus, Trypho fled to Dor, by the sea, realizing what a mass of troubles had come upon him now that his soldiers had deserted him. [1MACC
15:11-12]
Not long after this the king sent an Athenian senator to force
the Jews to abandon the customs of their ancestors and live no
longer by the laws of God; also to profane the temple in Jerusalem
and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus, and that on Mount Gerizim to
Zeus the Hospitable, as the inhabitants of the place requested.
This intensified the evil in an intolerable and utterly disgusting
way. The Gentiles filled the temple with debauchery and
revelry [Taken from 2MACC 6:1-4]
He never withdraws his mercy from us. Although he disciplines
us with misfortunes, he does not abandon his own people. [2MACC
6:16]
Antiochus, suspecting insult in her words, thought he was being
ridiculed. As the youngest brother was still alive, the king
appealed to him, not with mere words, but with promises on oath,
to make him rich and happy if he would abandon his ancestral
customs: he would make him his Friend and entrust him with high
office. When the youth paid no attention to him at all, the king
appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to save his
life. After he had urged her for a long time, she went through the
motions of persuading her son. In derision of the cruel tyrant,
she leaned over close to her son and said in their native
language: "Son, have pity on me, who carried you in my womb
for nine months, nursed you for three years, brought you up,
educated and supported you to your present age. I beg you, child,
to look at the heavens and the earth and see all that is in them;
then you will know that God did not make them out of existing
things; and in the same way the human race came into existence. Do
not be afraid of this executioner, but be worthy of your brothers
and accept death, so that in the time of mercy I may receive you
again with them." She had scarcely finished speaking when the
youth said: "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the
king's command. I obey the command of the law given to our
forefathers through Moses." [2MACC 7:24-30]
When Judas learned of Nicanor's advance and informed his companions about the approach of the army, the cowardly and those who lacked faith in God's justice deserted and got away. But the others sold everything they had left, and at the same time besought the Lord to deliver those whom the ungodly Nicanor had sold before even meeting them. [2MACC
8:12-14]
Have I no helper, and has advice deserted me? [JOB 6:13]
He makes nations great and he destroys them; he spreads peoples
abroad and he abandons them. [JOB 12:23]
He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted,
That are crumbling into clay with no shadow to lengthen over the ground.
He shall not be rich, and his possessions shall not endure [Taken from JOB
15:28-29]
Help, LORD, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have
vanished from the human race [PS 12:2]
For you will not abandon me to Sheol, nor let your faithful
servant see the pit. [PS 16:10]
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why so far from my
call for help, from my cries of anguish? [PS 22:2]
Do not stay far from me, for trouble is near, and there is no
one to help. [PS 22:12]
Look upon me, have pity on me, for I am alone and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart;
bring me out of my distress. Put an end to my affliction and suffering;
take away all my sins. See how many are my enemies, see how fiercely they hate me. Preserve my life and rescue me;
do not let me be disgraced, for I trust in you. Let honesty and virtue preserve me;
I wait for you, O LORD. [PS 25:16-21]
Do not abandon me to the will of my foes; malicious and lying
witnesses have risen against me. [PS 27:12]
You will not abandon me into enemy hands, but will set my feet
in a free and open space. [PS 31:9]
Look upon me, have pity on me, for I am alone and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart;
bring me out of my distress. Put an end to my affliction and suffering;
take away all my sins. See how many are my enemies, see how fiercely they hate me. Preserve my life and rescue me;
do not let me be disgraced, for I trust in you. Let honesty and virtue preserve me;
I wait for you, O LORD. [PS 35:16-21]
Give up your anger, abandon your wrath; do not be provoked; it brings only harm. Those who do evil will be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD will possess the land. [PS 37:8-9]
Neither in my youth, nor now in old age have I ever seen the
just abandoned or their children begging bread. [PS 37:25]
For the LORD loves justice and does not abandon the faithful. [Taken
from PS 37:28]
Yet you have left us crushed, desolate in a place of jackals;
you have covered us with darkness. [PS 44:20]
Pour out your wrath upon them; let the fury of your anger overtake them. Make their camp desolate,
with none to dwell in their tents. For they pursued the one you struck,
added to the pain of the one you wounded. Add that to their crimes;
let them not attain to your reward. Strike them from the book of the living; do not count them among the just!
[PS 69:25-29]
Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. For my enemies speak against me;
they watch and plot against me. They say, "God has abandoned that one.
Pursue, seize the wretch! No one will come to the rescue!" God, do not stand far from me;
my God, hasten to help me. [PS 71:9-12]
For he rescues the poor when they cry out, the oppressed who
have no one to help. [PS 72:12]
God heard and grew angry; he rejected Israel completely. He forsook the shrine at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt with humans. He gave up his might into captivity,
his glorious ark into the hands of the foe. God abandoned his people to the sword;
he was enraged against his heritage. [PS 78:59-62]
Restore us once more, God our savior; abandon your wrath
against us. [PS 85:5]
You, LORD, will not forsake your people, nor abandon your very
own. [PS 94:14]
Because they rebelled against God's word, scorned the
counsel of the Most High, Who humbled their hearts through
hardship; they stumbled with no one to help. In their
distress they cried to the LORD, who saved them in their
peril, Led them forth from darkness and gloom and broke their
chains asunder. Let them thank the LORD for such
kindness, such wondrous deeds for mere mortals. [PS 107:11-15]
I will keep your laws; do not leave me all alone. [PS 119:8]
I have fulfilled your just edict; do not abandon me to my
oppressors. [PS 119:121]
Those who abandon the law praise the wicked man, but those who
keep the law war against him. [PROV 28:4]
Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up. So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm? Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken.
[ECCL 4:9-12]
But Wisdom delivered from tribulations those who served her.
She, when the just man fled from his brother's anger, guided
him in direct ways, Showed him the kingdom of God and
gave him knowledge of holy things; She prospered him in his
labors and made abundant the fruit of his works, Stood by him
against the greed of his defrauders, and enriched him; She
preserved him from foes, and secured him against
ambush, And she gave him the prize for his stern
struggle that he might know that devotion to God is
mightier than all else. She did not abandon the just man when he
was sold, but delivered him from sin. [WISDOM 10:9-13]
Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little, warn them, and
remind them of the sins they are committing, that they may abandon
their wickedness and believe in you, O LORD! [WISDOM 12:2]
Provoke no quarrel with a quick-tempered man, nor ride with him
through the desert, For bloodshed is nothing to him; when there is
no one to help you, he will destroy you. [SIRACH 8:16]
As long as the rich man can use you he will enslave you, but
when you are exhausted, he will abandon you. [SIRACH 13:4]
Through one wise man can a city be peopled; through a clan of
rebels it becomes desolate. [SIRACH 16:4]
LORD, Father and God of my life, abandon me not into their
control! [SIRACH 23:4]
Forget not the kindness of your backer, for he offers his very life for you. The wicked turn a pledge on their behalf into misfortune,
and the ingrate abandons his protector; Going surety has ruined many prosperous men
and tossed them about like waves of the sea, Has exiled men of prominence
and sent them wandering through foreign lands. [SIRACH 29:15-18]
The Judges, too, each one of them, whose hearts were not
deceived, Who did not abandon God: may their memory be ever
blessed [Taken from SIRACH 46:11]
Solomon reigned during an era of peace, for God made
tranquil all his borders. He built a house to the name of
God, and established a lasting sanctuary. How wise you were
when you were young, overflowing with instruction, like the
Nile in flood! You were called by that glorious name which
was conferred upon Israel. Gold you gathered like so much
iron, you heaped up silver as though it were lead; But you
abandoned yourself to women and gave them dominion over your
body. You brought dishonor upon your reputation, shame upon
your marriage, Wrath upon your descendants, and groaning
upon your domain [Taken from SIRACH 47:13-14,18-20]
Except for David, Hezekiah and Josiah, they all were wicked; They abandoned the Law of the Most High,
these kings of Judah, right to the very end. So he gave over their power to others,
their glory to a foolish foreign nation Who burned the holy city and left its streets desolate,
As Jeremiah had foretold; for they had treated him badly who even in the womb had been made a prophet,
To root out, pull down, and destroy, and then to build and to plant. [SIRACH 49:4-7]
I turned every way, but there was no one to help me, I looked
for one to sustain me, but could find no one. But then I
remembered the mercies of the LORD, his kindness through ages
past; For he saves those who take refuge in him, and
rescues them from every evil. So I raised my voice from the very
earth, from the gates of the nether world, my cry. I called
out: O Lord, you are my father, you are my champion and my
savior; Do not abandon me in time of trouble, in the
midst of storms and dangers. I will ever praise your name and
be constant in my prayers to you. Thereupon the LORD heard my
voice, he listened to my appeal; He saved me from evil of
every kind and preserved me in time of trouble. For this
reason I thank him and I praise him; I bless the name of the
LORD. [SIRACH 51:7-12]
Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on
the ground. [ISA 3:26]
Woe to you who join house to house, who connect field with
field, Till no room remains, and you are left to dwell alone in
the midst of the land! [ISA 5:8]
And he replied: Go and say to this people: Listen
carefully, but you shall not understand! Look intently, but
you shall know nothing! You are to make the heart of this people
sluggish, to dull their ears and close their eyes; Else
their eyes will see, their ears hear, their heart
understand, and they will turn and be healed. "How long,
O Lord?" I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are
desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without a
man, and the earth is a desolate waste. Until the LORD
removes men far away, and the land is abandoned more and
more. If there be still a tenth part in it, then this in turn
shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose
trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. [Taken from ISA
6:9-13]
Broken down is the city of chaos, shut against entry, every house. In the streets they cry out for lack of wine;
all joy has disappeared and cheer has left the land. In the city nothing remains but ruin;
its gates are battered and desolate. [ISA 24:10-12]
For the fortified city shall be desolate,
an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness,
where calves shall browse and lie.
Its boughs shall be destroyed, its branches shall wither and be broken off,
and women shall come to build a fire with them.
This is not an understanding people;
therefore their maker shall not spare them, nor shall he who formed them have mercy on them. [ISA 27:10-11]
Return, O children of Israel, to him whom you have utterly
deserted. [ISA 31:6]
Yes, the castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted [Taken
from ISA
32:14]
Though you were waste and desolate, a land of ruins, Now you
shall be too small for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed
you up will be far away. [ISA 49:19]
You shall ask yourself: "Who has borne me these? I was
bereft and barren (exiled and repudiated); who has reared them? I
was left all alone; where then do these come from?" [ISA
49:21]
Raise a glad cry, you barren one who did not bear, break forth
in jubilant song, you who were not in labor, For more numerous are
the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has
a husband, says the LORD. [ISA 54:1]
For you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left; Your
descendants shall dispossess the nations and shall people the
desolate cities. [ISA 54:3]
The LORD calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved
in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast
off, says your God. For a brief moment I abandoned
you, but with great tenderness I will take you back. In an
outburst of wrath, for a moment I hid my face from
you; But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the
LORD, your redeemer. [ISA 54:6-8]
Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day,
and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just
and not abandoned the law of their God; They ask me to declare what is due them,
pleased to gain access to God. [ISA 58:1-2]
They shall rebuild the ancient ruins, the former wastes they
shall raise up And restore the ruined cities, desolate now for
generations. [ISA 61:4]
No more shall men call you "Forsaken," or your land
"Desolate," But you shall be called "My
Delight," and your land "Espoused." For the LORD
delights in you, and makes your land his spouse. [ISA 62:4]
"The wine press I have trodden alone, and of my
people there was no one with me. I trod them in my
anger, and trampled them down in my wrath; Their blood
spurted on my garments; all my apparel I stained. For the day
of vengeance was in my heart, my year for redeeming was at
hand. I looked about, but there was no one to help, I was
appalled that there was no one to lend support; So my own arm
brought about the victory and my own wrath lent me its
support." [ISA 63:3-5]
Fools my people are, they know me not; Senseless
children they are, having no understanding; They are
wise in evil, but know not how to do good. I looked at the
earth, and it was waste and void; at the heavens, and their
light had gone out! I looked at the mountains, and they were
trembling, and all the hills were crumbling! I looked and
behold, there was no man; even the birds of the air had flown
away! I looked and behold, the garden land was a desert, with
all its cities destroyed before the LORD, before his blazing
wrath. For thus says the LORD: Waste shall the whole land
be; I will (not) wholly destroy it. Because of this the earth
shall mourn, the heavens above shall darken; I have
spoken, I will not repent, I have resolved, I will not turn
back. At the shout of horseman and bowman each city takes to
flight; They shrink into the thickets, they scale the
rocks: All the cities are abandoned, and no one dwells
in them.
[JER 4:22-29]
Over the mountains, break out in cries of
lamentation, over the pasture lands, intone a
dirge: They are scorched, and no man crosses
them, unheard is the bleat of the flock; Birds of the
air as well as beasts, all have fled, and are gone. I will
turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of
jackals; The cities of Judah I will make into a
waste, where no one dwells. Who is so wise that he can
understand this? Let him to whom the mouth of the LORD has
spoken make it known: Why is the land ravaged, scorched
like a wasteland untraversed? The LORD answered: Because they have
abandoned my law, which I set before them, and have not followed
it or listened to my voice, but followed rather the hardness of
their hearts and the Baals, as their fathers had taught them;
therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: See
now, I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. I will
scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their fathers
have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have
completely destroyed them.
[JER 9:9-15]
I abandon my house, cast off my heritage; The beloved
of my soul I deliver into the hand of her foes. My heritage
has turned on me like a lion in the jungle; Because she
has roared against me, I treat her as an enemy. [JER 12:7-8]
Many shepherds have ravaged my vineyard, have trodden my heritage underfoot;
The portion that delighted me they have turned into a desert waste. They have made it a mournful waste,
desolate it lies before me, Desolate, all the land, because no one takes it to heart. [JER 12:10-11]
The cities of the Negeb are besieged, with no one to relieve
them; All Judah is banished in universal exile. [JER 13:19]
I did not sit celebrating in the circle of merrymakers; Under
the weight of your hand I sat alone because you filled me with
indignation. [JER 15:17]
Many people will pass by this city and ask one another: "Why has the LORD done this to so great a city?" And the answer will be given: "Because they have deserted their covenant with the LORD, their God, by worshiping and serving strange gods."
[JER 22:8-9]
When Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD bade him speak to all the people, the priests and prophets laid hold of him, crying, "You must be put to death! Why do you prophesy in the name of the LORD: 'This house shall be like Shiloh,' and 'This city shall be desolate and deserted'?" And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
[JER 26:8-9]
Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, "How desolate it is, without man, without beast!" and in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are now deserted, without man, without citizen, without beast, there shall yet be heard the cry of joy, the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, the voice of the bride, the sound of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, singing, "Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good;
his mercy endures forever." For I will restore this country as of old, says the
LORD. Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place, now desolate,
without man or beast, and in all its cities there shall again be
sheepfolds for the shepherds to couch their flocks. [JER 33:10-12]
Nebuzaradan, chief of the bodyguard, deported to Babylon the
rest of the people left in the city, those who had deserted to
him, and the rest of the workmen. [JER 39:9]
How lonely she is now, the once crowded city! Widowed is she
who was mistress over nations; The princess among the provinces
has been made a toiling slave. [LAM 1:1]
The roads to Zion mourn for lack of pilgrims going to her
feasts; All her gateways are deserted, her priests groan, Her
virgins sigh; she is in bitter grief. [LAM 1:4]
Jerusalem is mindful of the days of her wretched homelessness,
When her people fell into enemy hands, and she had no one to help
her; When her foes gloated over her, laughed at her ruin. [LAM
1:7]
"Come, all you who pass by the way, look and
see Whether there is any suffering like my
suffering, which has been dealt me When the LORD
afflicted me on the day of his blazing wrath. From on high he
sent fire down into my very frame; He spread a net for
my feet, and overthrew me. He left me desolate, in
pain all the day. He has kept watch over my sins; by his hand
they have been plaited: They have settled about my
neck, he has brought my strength to its knees; The Lord
has delivered me into their grip, I am unable to rise." [LAM
1:12-14]
He deranged my ways, set me astray, left me desolate. [LAM
3:11]
It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth. Let him sit alone and in silence,
when it is laid upon him. [LAM 3:27-28]
Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes grow dim: That Mount Zion should be desolate,
with jackals roaming there! You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age. Why, then, should you forget us,
abandon us so long a time? Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be restored:
give us anew such days as we had of old. [LAM 5:17-21]
'Thus says the LORD: Bend your shoulders to the service of the
king of Babylon, that you may continue in the land I gave your
fathers: for if you do not hear the LORD'S voice so as to serve
the king of Babylon, I will make to cease from the cities of
Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem The sounds of
joy and the sounds of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride; And all the land
shall be deserted, without inhabitants.' But we did not heed
your voice, or serve the king of Babylon, and you fulfilled the
threats you had made through your servants the prophets [Taken from BARUCH
2:21-24]
She indeed saw coming upon you the anger of God; and she
said: "Hear, you neighbors of Zion! God has brought
great mourning upon me, For I have seen the captivity that
the Eternal God has brought upon my sons and daughters. With
joy I fostered them; but with mourning and lament I let them
go. Let no one gloat over me, a widow, bereft of
many: For the sins of my children I am left
desolate, because they turned from the law of God, and did
not acknowledge his statutes; In the ways of God's
commandments they did not walk, nor did they tread the
disciplined paths of his justice." [BARUCH 4:9-13]
Farewell, my children, farewell: I am left desolate. I
have taken off the garment of peace, have put on sackcloth
for my prayer of supplication, and while I live I will cry
out to the Eternal God. "Fear not, my children; call upon
God, who will deliver you from oppression at enemy hands. I
have trusted in the Eternal God for your welfare, and joy has
come to me from the Holy One Because of the mercy that will
swiftly reach you from your eternal savior. With mourning and
lament I sent you forth, but God will give you back to
me with enduring gladness and joy." [BARUCH 4:19-23]
These gilded and silvered wooden statues are like stones from the mountains; and their worshipers will be put to shame. How then can it be thought or claimed that they are gods? Even the Chaldeans themselves have no respect for them; for when they see a deaf mute, incapable of speech, they bring forward Bel and ask the god to make noise, as though the man could understand; and they are themselves unable to reflect and abandon these gods, for they have no sense.
[BARUCH 6:38-41]
In all your dwelling places cities shall be made desolate and
high places laid waste, so that your altars will be made desolate
and laid waste, your idols broken and removed, and your incense
stands smashed to bits. [EZEK 6:6]
I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live
I will make the land a desolate waste, from the desert to Riblah;
thus shall they know that I am the LORD. [EZEK 6:14]
"As they began to strike, I was left alone. I fell prone, crying
out, Alas, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all that is left of Israel
when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?" [EZEK 9:8]
For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city desolate like cities that are no longer inhabited, when I churn up the abyss against you, and its mighty waters cover you, then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the pit, those of the bygone age; and I will make you dwell in the nether lands, in the everlasting ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you may never return to take your place in the land of the living. I will make you a devastation, and you shall be no more; you shall be sought, but never again found, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK
26:19-21]
The land of Egypt shall become a desolate waste; thus they
shall know that I am the LORD. Because you said, "The Niles
are mine; it is I who made them," therefore see! I am coming
at you and against your Niles; I will make the land of Egypt a
waste and a desolation from Migdol to Syene, and even to the
frontier of Ethiopia. No foot of man or beast shall pass through
it; they shall not pass through it, and it will be uninhabited for
forty years. I will make the land of Egypt the most desolate of
lands, and its cities shall be the most deserted of cities for
forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations
and strew them over foreign lands.
[EZEK 29:9-12]
Those who support Egypt shall fall, and down shall come her proud strength; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall there by the sword, says the Lord GOD. She shall be the most devastated of lands, and her cities shall be the most desolate of all.
[EZEK 30:6-7]
I will make the land a desolate waste, so that its proud
strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be
so desolate that no one will cross them. Thus they shall know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a
desolate waste because of all the abominable things they have
done. [EZEK 33:28-29]
Say to it: Thus says the Lord GOD: See! I am coming at you,
Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a
desolate waste. Your cities I will turn into ruins, and you shall
be a waste; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. Because you
never let die your hatred for the Israelites, whom you delivered
over to the power of the sword at the time of their trouble, when
their crimes came to an end, therefore, as I live, says the Lord
GOD, you have been guilty of blood, and blood, I swear, shall
pursue you. I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste, and cut off
from it any traveler. With the slain I will fill your hills, your
valleys, and all your ravines (in them the slain shall fall by the
sword): desolate will I make you forever, and leave your cities
without inhabitants; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. [EZEK
35:3-9]
Thus the neighboring nations that remain shall know that I, the
LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed and replanted what was
desolate. I, the LORD, have promised, and I will do it. [EZEK
36:36]
Hear, therefore, O God, the prayer and petition of your
servant; and for your own sake, O Lord, let your face shine upon
your desolate sanctuary. [DAN 9:17]
I alone, Daniel, saw the vision; but great fear seized the men who were with me; they fled and hid themselves, although they did not see the vision. So I was left alone, seeing this great vision. No strength remained in me; I turned the color of death and was powerless.
[DAN 10:7-8]
They shall eat but not be satisfied, they shall play the harlot but not increase,
Because they have abandoned the LORD to practice harlotry. [Taken from HOSEA
4:10-11]
She is fallen, to rise no more, the virgin Israel; She lies
abandoned upon her land, with no one to raise her up. [AMOS 5:2]
I have destroyed nations, their battlements are laid waste; I
have made their streets deserted, with no one passing through;
Their cities are devastated, with no man dwelling in them. [ZEPH
3:6]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Render true judgment, and show
kindness and compassion toward each other. Do not oppress the
widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor; do not plot evil
against one another in your hearts. But they refused to listen;
they stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears so as
not to hear. And they made their hearts diamond hard so as not to
hear the teaching and the message that the LORD of hosts had sent
by his spirit through the former prophets. Then the LORD of hosts
in his great anger said that, as they had not listened when he
called, so he would not listen when they called, but would scatter
them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they did not
know. Thus the land was left desolate after them with no one
traveling to and fro; they made the pleasant land into a desert. [ZECH
7:9-14]
Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned,
like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest."
[MT 9:35-38]
[Jesus said,] "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned, desolate."
[Taken from MT 23:37-38]
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. (But) I tell you, you will not see me until (the time comes when) you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
[LK 13:34-35]
Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived when each of you
will be scattered to his own home and you will leave me alone. But
I am not alone, because the Father is with me. [JN 16:32]
During those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers
(there was a group of about one hundred and twenty persons in the
one place). He said, "My brothers, the scripture had to be
fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand through the mouth
of David, concerning Judas, who was the guide for those who
arrested Jesus. He was numbered among us and was allotted a share
in this ministry. He bought a parcel of land with the wages of his
iniquity... This became known to everyone who lived in
Jerusalem, so that the parcel of land was called in their language
'Akeldama,' that is, Field of Blood. For it is written in the Book
of Psalms: 'Let his encampment become desolate, and may
no one dwell in it.' And: 'May another take his office.'
Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us
the whole time the Lord Jesus came and went among us, beginning
from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up
from us, become with us a witness to his resurrection."
[Taken from ACTS 1:15-22]
"You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the
Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds,
wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as
you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and
foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify
him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of
death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For
David says of him: 'I saw the Lord ever before me, with
him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart
has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will
dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the
netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see
corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you
will fill me with joy in your presence.' My brothers, one can
confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and
was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he
was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he
would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and
spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he
abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God
raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the
right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from
the Father and poured it forth, as you (both) see and hear. For
David did not go up into heaven, but he
himself said: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit
at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."'
Therefore let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God
has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you
crucified."
[ACTS 2:22-36]
After some time, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come, let us make
a return visit to see how the brothers are getting on in all the
cities where we proclaimed the word of the Lord." Barnabas
wanted to take with them also John, who was called Mark, but Paul
insisted that they should not take with them someone who had
deserted them at Pamphylia and who had not continued with them in
their work. So sharp was their disagreement that they separated.
Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus. [ACTS 15:36-39]
The next day, Paul accompanied us on a visit to James, and all
the presbyters were present. He greeted them, then proceeded to
tell them in detail what God had accomplished among the Gentiles
through his ministry. They praised God when they heard it but said
to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers
there are from among the Jews, and they are all zealous observers
of the law. They have been informed that you are teaching all the
Jews who live among the Gentiles to abandon Moses and that you are
telling them not to circumcise their children or to observe their
customary practices. What is to be done? They will surely hear
that you have arrived."
[ACTS 21:18-22]
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I
too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you
not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with
God against Israel? "Lord, they have killed your prophets,
they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are
seeking my life." But what is God's response to him? "I
have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to
Baal." So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen
by grace.
[ROM 11:1-5]
We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
[2COR 4:8-11]
They show interest in you, but not in a good way; they want to
isolate you, so that you may show interest in them. [GAL 4:17]
Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants.
One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is
Hagar. Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it
corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along
with her children. But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is
our mother. For it is written: "Rejoice, you barren one
who bore no children; break forth and shout, you who were not
in labor; for more numerous are the children of the deserted
one than of her who has a husband." [GAL 4:24-27]
The real widow, who is all alone, has set her hope on God and
continues in supplications and prayers night and day. [1TM 5:5]
You know that everyone in Asia deserted me, including Phygelus
and Hermogenes. [2TM 1:15]
Try to join me soon, for Demas, enamored of the present world, deserted me and went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia,
and Titus to Dalmatia. [2TM 4:9-10]
At my first defense no one appeared on my behalf, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's
mouth. [2TM 4:16-17]
Let your life be free from love of money but be content with
what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or
abandon you." [HEB 13:5]
I wish to remind you, although you know all things, that (the) Lord who once saved a people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not
believe. The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great
day.
[JUDE 1:5-6]
The ten horns that you saw and the beast will hate the harlot;
they will leave her desolate and naked [Taken from RV 17:16]
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/ forsaken [F11]
sorrow
/ sorrowful [S23]
despair
[D]
need
/ needs / needy [N2]
grief
[G10]
barren
[B]
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