I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

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 in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

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 dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

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, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

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 helper of the fatherless.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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 salvation.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

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.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

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 than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

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 neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.