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Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ” ’

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

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

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

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

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

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

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”