# עָזַב (azav)

Israeli respelling: a-zav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5800. 206 Old Testament occurrences.

to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.

King James renderings: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/azav-h5800

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/24) — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- [Genesis 24:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/27) — And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the…
- [Genesis 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/15) — And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not…
- [Genesis 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/39/6) — And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person…
- [Genesis 39:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/39/12) — And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
- [Genesis 39:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/39/13) — And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
- [Genesis 39:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/39/15) — And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
- [Genesis 39:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/39/18) — And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
- [Genesis 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/22) — And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
- [Genesis 50:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/8) — And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left…
- [Exodus 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/20) — And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
- [Exodus 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/9/21) — And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
- [Exodus 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/5) — If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
- [Leviticus 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/10) — And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and strang…
- [Leviticus 23:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/22) — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt…
- [Leviticus 26:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/43) — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the puni…
- [Numbers 10:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/31) — And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead…
- [Deuteronomy 12:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/19) — Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
- [Deuteronomy 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/27) — And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
- [Deuteronomy 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/20) — The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, a…
- [Deuteronomy 29:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/25) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/6) — Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail t…
- [Deuteronomy 31:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/8) — 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 di…
- [Deuteronomy 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/16) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of t…
- [Deuteronomy 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/17) — Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devo…
- [Deuteronomy 32:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/36) — For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up…
- [Joshua 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/1/5) — There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail…
- [Joshua 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/17) — And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- [Joshua 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/3) — Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
- [Joshua 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/16) — And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
- [Joshua 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/20) — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
- [Judges 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/12) — And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the pe…
- [Judges 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/13) — And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
- [Judges 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/21) — I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
- [Judges 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/6) — And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods o…
- [Judges 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/10) — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served…
- [Judges 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/13) — Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
- [Ruth 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/1/16) — And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodg…
- [Ruth 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/2/11) — And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine…
- [Ruth 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/2/16) — And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
- [Ruth 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/2/20) — And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And N…
- [1 Samuel 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/8) — According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have f…
- [1 Samuel 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/10) — And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now de…
- [1 Samuel 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/13) — And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and…
- [1 Samuel 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/31/7) — And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Isra…
- [2 Samuel 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/21) — And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
- [2 Samuel 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/16) — And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
- [1 Kings 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/13) — And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
- [1 Kings 8:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/57) — The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
- [1 Kings 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/9) — And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken ho…
- [1 Kings 11:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/33) — Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom…
- [1 Kings 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/8) — But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and whic…
- [1 Kings 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/13) — And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
- [1 Kings 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/10) — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him…
- [1 Kings 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/18) — And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and t…
- [1 Kings 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/10) — And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine a…
- [1 Kings 19:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/14) — And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thi…
- [1 Kings 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/20) — And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And h…
- [1 Kings 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/21) — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and hi…
- [2 Kings 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/2) — And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, an…
- [2 Kings 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/4) — And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as th…
- [2 Kings 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/6) — And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul l…
- [2 Kings 4:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/30) — And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
- [2 Kings 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/7) — Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled f…
- [2 Kings 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/6) — And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and a…
- [2 Kings 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/8) — For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left…
- [2 Kings 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/26) — For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
- [2 Kings 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/16) — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped al…
- [2 Kings 21:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/22) — And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
- [2 Kings 22:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/22/17) — Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their han…
- [1 Chronicles 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/10/7) — And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their ci…
- [1 Chronicles 14:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/14/12) — And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
- [1 Chronicles 16:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/37) — So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s…
- [1 Chronicles 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/9) — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searche…
- [1 Chronicles 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/20) — And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will…
- [2 Chronicles 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/19) — But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worsh…
- [2 Chronicles 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/22) — And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid h…
- [2 Chronicles 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/8) — But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before…
- [2 Chronicles 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/13) — And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
- [2 Chronicles 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/11/14) — For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from…
- [2 Chronicles 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/1) — And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israe…
- [2 Chronicles 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/5) — Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and s…
- [2 Chronicles 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/10) — But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and…
- [2 Chronicles 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/11) — And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon t…
- [2 Chronicles 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/2) — And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; an…
- [2 Chronicles 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/10) — So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he h…
- [2 Chronicles 24:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/18) — And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this the…
- [2 Chronicles 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/20) — 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,…
- [2 Chronicles 24:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/24) — For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had fo…
- [2 Chronicles 24:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/25) — And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the so…
- [2 Chronicles 28:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/6) — For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsake…
- [2 Chronicles 28:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/14) — So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
- [2 Chronicles 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/6) — For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away…
- [2 Chronicles 32:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/31) — Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land,…
- [2 Chronicles 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/25) — Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their han…
- [Ezra 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/22) — For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unt…
- [Ezra 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/9) — For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia,…
- [Ezra 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/10) — And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
- [Nehemiah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/8) — Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecari…
- [Nehemiah 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/2) — And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacr…
- [Nehemiah 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/10) — I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
- [Nehemiah 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/17) — And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appoi…
- [Nehemiah 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/19) — Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them…
- [Nehemiah 9:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/28) — But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the do…
- [Nehemiah 9:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/31) — Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
- [Nehemiah 10:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/39) — For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers,…
- [Nehemiah 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/11) — Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
- [Job 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/14) — To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- [Job 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/27) — If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- [Job 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/1) — My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- [Job 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/4) — He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- [Job 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/13) — Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- [Job 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/19) — Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- [Job 39:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/11) — Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
- [Job 39:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/14) — Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
- [Psalms 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/10) — And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
- [Psalms 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/14) — Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the…
- [Psalms 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/10) — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- [Psalms 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/1) — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- [Psalms 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/9) — Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my sal…
- [Psalms 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/10) — When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
- [Psalms 37:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/8) — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
- [Psalms 37:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/25) — I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
- [Psalms 37:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/28) — For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
- [Psalms 37:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/33) — The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
- [Psalms 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/10) — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
- [Psalms 38:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/21) — Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
- [Psalms 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/12) — For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more tha…
- [Psalms 49:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/10) — For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- [Psalms 71:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/9) — Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
- [Psalms 71:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/11) — Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
- [Psalms 71:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/18) — Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every…
- [Psalms 89:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/30) — If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- [Psalms 94:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/14) — For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- [Psalms 119:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/8) — I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
- [Psalms 119:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/53) — Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
- [Psalms 119:87](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/87) — They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
- [Proverbs 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/13) — Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- [Proverbs 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/17) — Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
- [Proverbs 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/3) — Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- [Proverbs 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/2) — For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
- [Proverbs 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/6) — Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
- [Proverbs 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/6) — Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- [Proverbs 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/17) — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- [Proverbs 15:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/10) — Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
- [Proverbs 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/10) — Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a nei…
- [Proverbs 28:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/4) — They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
- [Proverbs 28:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/13) — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
- [Isaiah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/4) — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have p…
- [Isaiah 1:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/28) — And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
- [Isaiah 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/16) — For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- [Isaiah 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/3) — And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where wil…
- [Isaiah 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/14) — And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and ther…
- [Isaiah 17:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/2) — The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- [Isaiah 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/9) — In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and…
- [Isaiah 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/18/6) — They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all…
- [Isaiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/10) — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shal…
- [Isaiah 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/14) — Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of w…
- [Isaiah 41:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/17) — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel…
- [Isaiah 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/16) — And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light befo…
- [Isaiah 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/14) — But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
- [Isaiah 54:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/6) — For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
- [Isaiah 54:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/7) — For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
- [Isaiah 55:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/7) — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; an…
- [Isaiah 58:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/2) — Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they a…
- [Isaiah 60:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/15) — Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generati…
- [Isaiah 62:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/4) — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land…
- [Isaiah 62:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/12) — And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
- [Isaiah 65:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/11) — But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offeri…
- [Jeremiah 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/16) — And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, an…
- [Jeremiah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/13) — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,…
- [Jeremiah 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/17) — Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
- [Jeremiah 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/19) — Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitte…
- [Jeremiah 4:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/29) — The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city sh…
- [Jeremiah 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/7) — How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they…
- [Jeremiah 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/19) — And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like…
- [Jeremiah 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/2) — Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterer…
- [Jeremiah 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/13) — And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
- [Jeremiah 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/19) — For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our…
- [Jeremiah 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/7) — I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
- [Jeremiah 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/5) — Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
- [Jeremiah 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/11) — Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served the…
- [Jeremiah 17:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/11) — As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his…
- [Jeremiah 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/13) — O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because the…
- [Jeremiah 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/14) — Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place…
- [Jeremiah 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/4) — Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fa…
- [Jeremiah 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/9) — Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
- [Jeremiah 25:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/38) — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce…
- [Jeremiah 48:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/28) — O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mout…
- [Jeremiah 49:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/11) — Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
- [Jeremiah 49:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/25) — How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
- [Jeremiah 51:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/9) — We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth u…
- [Lamentations 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/20) — Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
- [Ezekiel 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/12) — Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his…
- [Ezekiel 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/9) — Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of…
- [Ezekiel 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/8) — But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did t…
- [Ezekiel 23:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/8) — Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and p…
- [Ezekiel 23:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/29) — And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy…
- [Ezekiel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/21) — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire o…
- [Ezekiel 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/4) — Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers…
- [Daniel 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/30) — For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant:…
- [Hosea 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/10) — For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the…
- [Jonah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/8) — They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- [Zephaniah 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/4) — For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
- [Zechariah 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/17) — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up,…
- [Malachi 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/4/1) — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day th…