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    1. …For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake


    2. “For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you


    3. He did not leave me nor forsake me


    4. History shows us that if the first forsake the community, for a time, to advance himself


    5. have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee


    6. (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy


    7. he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee


    8. wicked forsake his ways and the


    9. In one way the Holy Spirit is everywhere all the time, and that is why Jesus could say that he would never leave or forsake us


    10. "I traveled to the end of the outlands and beyond hoping to forsake this battle

    11. [17] The so-called Auchterarder Controversy around the same time focussed on the problem as to whether or not it was sound and orthodox to insist that a man must forsake sin before he can come to Jesus Christ


    12. ’ i said, ‘How did they forsake you?’


    13. from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods


    14. 57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, let him not leave us, nor forsake us,


    15. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey


    16. but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever


    17. you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord


    18. 9 Throw me not away in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails


    19. Isa 65:11 "But it will be different for you that forsake me, who ignore Zion, my sacred hill, and worship Gad and Meni, the gods of luck and fate


    20. 53 Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law

    21. 8 The Lord will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O Lord, endures forever, forsake not the works of your own hands


    22. My son, hear the instruction of your father and forsake not the law of your mother because that shall be an ornament of grace on your


    23. her, nor turn away from the words of my mouth; do not forsake her and she shall preserve you: Love her and she shall protect you;


    24. Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity,


    25. shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed


    26. hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and those who depart from me shall be written in the Earth, because they have


    27. saying, The hand of our God is on all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him


    28. away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt; then I said, I will pour out my fury on them, to


    29. " Cease from anger and forsake wrath


    30. shall even return, and have intelligence with those who forsake the holy covenant

    31. 10 Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him, a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, you shall drink it with


    32. 4 If you be for his profit, he will use you, but if you have nothing, he will forsake you


    33. afterward, when he sees you, he will forsake you, and shake his head at you


    34. 14 An honest man is surety for his neighbour, but he who is impudent will forsake him


    35. Up then, and eat bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaves his flock in the hands of cruel wolves


    36. forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope


    37. that He will never forget or forsake us, but with much mercy will gather together again those who were dispersed


    38. 21 God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances


    39. law and commandments, and send you peace, 5 And hear your prayers, and be at one with you, and never forsake you in time of


    40. 16 therefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die, 17 will not forsake my brethren

    41. 7 Then the angels said to Adam, "You did listen to Satan, and did forsake the Word of God who created you; and you did believe that Satan would fulfil all he had promised you;


    42. ' And Enoch began to recount from the writings and said: 'I was born the seventh in the first week, While judgement and righteousness still endured, and after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness, and deceit shall have sprung up; And in it there shall be the first end and in it a man shall be saved; And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up, and a law shall be made for the sinners; And after that in the third week at its close the man shall be elected as the Plant of Righteous Judgement, And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore; And after that in the fourth week, at its close, visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen; And a law for all generations and closure shall be made for them; And after that in the fifth week at its close, The House of Glory and Dominion shall be built forever; And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded; And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom; And in it a man shall ascend; And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire, And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed; And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise; And many shall be its deeds, and all its deeds shall be apostate; And at its end shall be elected, The Elect Righteous of the eternal Plant of Righteousness, to receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation; For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His thoughts? And who is there that can note all the works of Heaven? And how should there be one who could see Heaven; And who is there that could understand the things of Heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell of it, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the Earth, And to whom has been shown the measure of all of them? Or is there anyone who could discern the length of the Heaven and how great is its height, and on what it is founded and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?'


    43. with a mind to that which is coming soon, and forsake the


    44. ised us in the Bible that He would never abandon us or forsake us


    45. 24 And Isaac called to Jacob and said to him, Take not a wife from the daughters of Canaan, for so did our father Abraham command us according to the word of the Lord which he had commanded him, saying, to your seed will I give this land; if your children keep my covenant that I have made with you, then will I also perform to your children that which I have spoken to you and I will not forsake them


    46. 26 Therefore take heed lest you should forget the Lord your God and all his ways in the land to which you go, and should get connected with the people of the land and pursue vanity and forsake the Lord your God


    47. 4 And Moses said to Joshua, Be strong and courageous, for you will make the children of Israel inherit the land, and the Lord will be with you, he will not leave you nor forsake you, be not afraid nor disheartened


    48. “The books say when the time comes, she will find him, and he will forsake all others for her


    49. 19 Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live on the earth


    50. 27 And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you













































    1. His cry of, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” is to be understood in the same context that Gethsemane was anguish


    2. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Isn’t Jesus really expressing the heart of David here? Isn’t this a reference back to Psalm 22? For Jesus to make that cry was for Him to blow the whistle on all of those that surrounded and mocked


    3. This wasn’t about Jesus being forsaken


    4. Music can be a powerful thing, but when music becomes a means to feeling, we have forsaken the holy worship in Spirit and truth


    5. ‘Lintze, you have forsaken much for the sake of your quest - I do not ask to see that which you hold but honour you for your efforts … you are a true daughter of your family


    6. they have forsaken the Messiah and become as hammers to the cross


    7. At any moment any life could be forsaken, without warning, without reason, and without purpose


    8. You are indeed a remarkable young man with heartwarming qualities and we’re happy that you have forsaken your Babylonian gods


    9. Near the ninth hour Jesus wailed, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”


    10. had forsaken Tom’s memory and for what? She felt she had

    11. But now she had forsaken all of that protection, and for what? A pretty stranger


    12. What would he do about the army in Aramell? Would he ally them? What would he do to the wizards? Banish them? Where would they go? When normality was restored, what would Balzar do to the poor forsaken slaves that they had seen in the bowels of the mountain? Surely they had a right to live? They were, after all, living creatures, no, men


    13. At the time Slikit could only suppose such a terrible thing was happening because the Custodians of Spinningbrock had forsaken the old ways when younger more impatient badgers had challenged their customs, thinking they knew better how to live life


    14. Yet you choose death! You have forsaken Me and forced My hand! The stink of your perversions fill My nostrils! Your murders stain My courts! The broken bodies of the innocent and the blameless are piled up in heaps, before My eyes!


    15. MY EvERY DECREE, FORSAKEN! Yet the cause of The And the sin of this wicked generation shall be exposed, for they have altogether hated Me! Lord shall be fulfilled in His messengers, and the controversy of The Lord shall be trumpeted from the rooftops!


    16. Behold, the churches of men have fallen! They are fallen! Even every one of them has forsaken Me! All have went backward and not forward! Each one refuses to obey, nor will they incline the ear, but follow the counsels and dictates of their own evil hearts! Lo, with open palms they greedily receive false testimony, as they give ear to every false prophet and teacher who comes to them speaking lies and pleasant things, saying, “Peace, peace”


    17. Those who have forsaken them, because of the word of The Lord


    18. Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? And the Lord says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord


    19. What did Jesus call his “Father in Heaven?” The Bible again tells us that when Jesus hung upon the cross, in the extremis of his mortal condition, he asked the question “My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?” He spoke this in the lingua Franca of his time, Aramaic


    20. founded on the principles of god’s Word, has long forsaken its cal ing

    21. the churches have forsaken me


    22. 33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the


    23. 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the


    24. 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown


    25. 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant,


    26. 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of


    27. of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, So says the Lord, You have forsaken me,


    28. 10 But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister to the Lord, are the sons


    29. forsaken the Lord God of his fathers


    30. have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you

    31. with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of


    32. 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken


    33. the book which they have read before the king of Judah, 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods,


    34. 4 He tears himself in his anger; shall the Earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?


    35. 19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;


    36. Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life


    37. forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward


    38. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken


    39. shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness; Thereshall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and


    40. shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the

    41. Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me


    42. 6 For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken


    43. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with


    44. yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way? 18 And now what have you to do in the way of


    45. you have forsaken the Lord your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts


    46. 7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and


    47. have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your's


    48. places; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his anger


    49. the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through? 13 And the Lord says, Because they have forsaken


    50. 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,














































    1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    2. 33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he hath, he cannot be my


    3. 13He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall


    4. 14 To him who is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty


    5. 13 Though he spares it, and forsakes it not; but keep it still within his mouth,


    6. 28 For the Lord loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off


    7. stranger who flatters with her words, who forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant with her God because her house


    8. grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die; Hell and destruction are before the Lord; how much more


    9. He who conceals his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes


    10. 16 He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer; and he who angers his mother is cursed, of God

    11. And Enoch asked one of the angels, concerning the Son of Man as to who he was; And he who is the angel came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said to me: 'This is the Son of Man who is born to righteousness; And righteousness abides over him; And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not


    12. And Enoch asked one of the angels concerning the Son of Man as to who he was; And he who is the angel came to me and greeted me with His voice and said to me: 'This is the Son of Man who is born to righteousness; And righteousness abides over him; And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not


    13. He realized that God never forsakes us, but it is we who stray away from Him


    14. ' 8 And it came to pass when I had spoken to them all these words that I Baruch went my way and when the people saw me setting out they lifted up their voice and lamented and said: 9 To where are you departing from us Baruch and are you forsaking us as a father who forsakes his orphan children and departs from them?


    15. forsake: (whoso confesses and) forsakes his sins


    16. “He who conceals his sins prospers not, but he who confesses and forsakes them obtains mercy


    17. If I was to meditate: God never leaves me or forsakes me, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in me - my spirit rises with great strength


    18. [54] By Abdullah Ibn Amr, narrated by Ahmed and At'termethy, he said: The messenger of Allah said: "The most merciful (Allah) have mercy with those who are merciful, Have mercy with those on land, may that who is in the heavens have mercy with you, the kinship is a branch from The most merciful, whoever connects it, Allah connects him and whoever forsake it, Allah forsakes him


    19. (5) Proverbs 15:11 "Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that


    20. (5) Proverbs 15:11 "Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he

    21. (5) Proverbs 15:11 "Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die


    22. (28) Proverbs 15:11 "Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die


    23. Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,


    24. His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties


    25. I know now that a man who forsakes a woman, or a woman who forsakes a man, when the two have once been united, is guilty of the divorce which Jesus forbade, because men and women abandoned by their first companions are the original cause of all the debauchery in the world


    1. the strong forsaking the consists of a diverse group of astronaut-pioneers


    2. But Solo Ki fought with prescience as though blessed with a foresight of her actions, fighting without form, forsaking knowledge to move by instinct alone


    3. “Do you recall how the prophet Jeremiah warned us time and again that the Babylonians would come to take us captive and destroy our city because we were forsaking God and his commandments? So it’s all actually our own fault


    4. Doing so with great sorrow in your hearts, over that which this world has chosen, in all their forsaking of Me


    5. They have departed in their hearts, forsaking the first works!


    6. houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in


    7. up their voice and lamented and said: 9 To where are you departing from us, Baruch, and are you forsaking us as a father who


    8. ' 8 And it came to pass when I had spoken to them all these words that I Baruch went my way and when the people saw me setting out they lifted up their voice and lamented and said: 9 To where are you departing from us Baruch and are you forsaking us as a father who forsakes his orphan children and departs from them?


    9. and forsaking our sins


    10. Wherefore forsaking the vanity of many and their false doctrines let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from the beginning; “watching through prayer” and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God “not to lead us into temptation” as the Lord has said; “The spirit truly is willing but the flesh is weak”

    11. forsaking the Poor House you have become


    12. in the streets forsaking everything; including his own family


    13. of forsaking life, land, father, mother, and children mainly


    14. The lads loaded up with me, forsaking their car completely, and we left that demonic place


    15. 11 Now are we truly forsaking the lures of the known order of existence while we unreservedly dedicate our quest to the lures of the unknown and unexplored order of the existence of a future life of adventure in the spirit worlds of the higher idealism of divine reality


    16. Certain it was that Jesus would have accepted no less than half a dozen others, but they were unwilling to pay the price of forsaking wealth and families


    17. I could imagine them closing the door on me, trapping me in this God forsaking place


    18. Times have changed lately and personal greed has been held in check by a new morality that puts community ahead of the individual without forsaking liberty and the pursuit of happiness


    19. forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some,


    20. were ready to head back to Egypt, forsaking all that He had done for them

    21. ing? For such a man there is no harm in forsaking action, because he no


    22. any profit in accomplishing action nor any loss in forsaking it


    23. “Rather than forsaking them, deeds such as yagya, charity, and


    24. Forsaking it out of some delusion is thus said to be relin-


    25. forsaking of all deeds since all of them are flawed, but others are con-


    26. It follows that the killing of enchanters can be made a reality by forsaking them and the sessions through which they conjure their hidden devils


    27. “…indeed, whoever, forsaking Al’lah, takes Satan for a friend, has of a surety suffered a loss that is manifest


    28. By eternal God! That is the function of the real religious scholar: clarifying the Holy Qur’an, which is the Provider’s declaration for people; teaching them the wisdom of its verses and the lessons hidden behind its stories; instructing them about its laws and commands; and informing them that adhering to It will save them, whereas forsaking It and turning to books that are filled with fabricated sayings will cause them destruction


    29. “ I’m the only one allowed physical contact with you for your initiation rites this evening, but the other members will be praying and fasting as you are joined to us, forsaking all others but Hella Dracon and Blaec Toth Snaca


    30. As they made ready to leave, forsaking breakfast for a rapid departure, Gamying approached Manfred and whispered to him

    31. And then he went back to the business of ruling his kingdom, forsaking the majority of his magical knowledge from that day forward


    32. In hopes that forsaking it would lead to a society where a single person’s error of spirit would not lead to the downfall of many by the selfish use of knowledge by one individual or only a few


    33. Ships began to sink, their hulls shattered, as still other ships made way for the open ocean forsaking the screaming soldiers trying to swim out to them


    34. She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,--and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment


    35. Rather than forsaking bombing, Nixon once again embraced it


    36. Rex, in his early forties, had grown heavy and ruddy; he had lost his Canadian accent and acquired instead the hoarse, loud tone that was common to all his friends, as though their voices were perpetually strained to make themselves heard above a crowd, as though, with youth forsaking them, there was no time to wait the opportunity to speak, no time to listen, no time to reply; time for a laugh - a throaty mirthless laugh, the base currency of goodwill


    37. But instead of reopening her engagement at the Porte Saint Martin, where she would have been all the more popular for the fatal episode, she left Paris without warning, forsaking her little court of admirers


    38. There is a forsaking which still sits at the same board and lies on the same couch with the


    39. ‘We are the old Martians, who left our marble cities and went into the hills, forsaking the material life we had lived


    40. “We are the old Martians, who left our marble cities and went into the hills, forsaking the material life we had lived

    41. He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands


    42. I can no longer abandon the woman with whom I have been united, for I know that by forsaking her, I set a snare for myself, for her, and for others


    43. Lord, help me! My God, if Thy forsaking me is Thy doing, Thy will be done; but if I am myself the cause, teach me what I should do! I shall perish of my debauchery if Thou utterly desertest me!


    44. It is by no means difficult to believe that a stream, after having worn such a chasm as a cave presents, in the solid rock, may have found another channel; and, forsaking the old, have left room for nature to display some of her most beautiful works


    1. Forsook his sacred duties as a


    2. forsook his childhood friends many years


    3. “Cruzel showed me how to use it properly and I shall now use it to destroy the coward who forsook me all those years ago


    4. Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them


    5. 9 And they shall answer, because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have


    6. 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


    7. 22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord


    8. 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 cities, and


    9. Lord done so to this land, and to this house? 22 And it shall be answered, because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which


    10. 8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were

    11. 1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord,


    12. 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;


    13. 87 They had almost consumed me on earth; but I forsook not your precepts


    14. in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass


    15. anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not


    16. brought you up out of Egypt, and had brought great provocations; 19 Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the


    17. 13 When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin; she went down with him into the pit,


    18. inhabited the city forsook you, 26 And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done, for they also had a wicked


    19. uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief


    20. forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known

    21. 44 boars, till he had destroyed them all; And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was among the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep, and trampled on them, and behaved itself


    22. And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from among the sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to kill them; And one of them was saved and was not killed, and it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to kill it, but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there; And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify to them and lament over them; And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter among them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place; And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep; And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts; And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts; But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts; And He called seventy shepherds, and throw those sheep to those who they might pasture them, and He spoke to the shepherds and their companions: 'Let each individual of you pasture the sheep from now onwards, and everything that I shall command you that do you; And I will deliver them over to you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed and them you destroy; And he gave over to them those sheep; And He called another and spoke to him: 'Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them; And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds, record namely how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects; And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them; But they shall not know it, and you shall not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me


    23. 53 Even from the time of his son's birth till now, being thirty seven years, he built no altar before you, nor brought any offering to you, for he saw that you did give what he requested before you, and he therefore forsook you


    24. 13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth


    25. 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 of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him


    26. 44 boars till he had destroyed them all; And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram which was among the sheep till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep and trampled on them and behaved itself


    27. And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways and forsook that their house and the Lord of the sheep called some from among the sheep and sent them to the sheep but the sheep began to kill them; And one of them was saved and was not killed and it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to kill it but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep and brought it up to me and caused it to dwell there; And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify to them and lament over them; And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter among them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place; And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers and wolves and hyenas and into the hand of the foxes and to all the wild beasts and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep; And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions to tear and devour them into the hand of all the wild beasts; And I began to cry aloud with all my power and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts; But He remained unmoved though He saw it and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts; And He called seventy shepherds and throw those sheep to those who they might pasture them and He spoke to the shepherds and their companions: 'Let each individual of you pasture the sheep from now onwards and everything that I shall command you that do you; And I will deliver them over to you duly numbered and tell you which of them are to be destroyed and them you destroy; And he gave over to them those sheep; And He called another and spoke to him: 'Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them; And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds record namely how many they destroy according to my command and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects; And read out before me by number how many they destroy and how many they deliver over for destruction that I may have this as a testimony against them and know every deed of the shepherds that I may comprehend and see what they do whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them; But they shall not know it and you shall not declare it to them nor admonish them but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me


    28. 53 Even from the time of his son's birth till now being thirty seven years he built no altar before you nor brought any offering to you for he saw that you did give what he requested before you and he therefore forsook you


    29. 25 When this was done many years then those who inhabited the city forsook you 26 And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done for they also had a wicked heart: 27 And so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies


    30. 56 For when they had taken liberty they despised the Most High thought scorn of his law and forsook his ways

    31. 13 Then certain of the people were so forward herein that they went to the king who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen: 14 Upon which they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen: 15 And made themselves uncircumcised and forsook the holy covenant and joined themselves to the heathen and were sold to do mischief


    32. 52 Then many of the people were gathered to them to wit everyone who forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land; 53 And drove the Israelites into secret places even wheresoever they could flee for succour


    33. 12 What for he took his daughter from him and gave her to Demetrius and forsook Alexander so that their hatred was openly known


    34. 44 And while he was walking on the shore of the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers Simon who was called Cephas and Andrew his brother casting their nets into the sea; for they were fishers; And Jesus said to them Follow me and I will make you fishers of men; And they immediately left their nets there and followed him; And when he went on from there he saw other two brothers James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in the ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and Jesus called them; And they immediately forsook the ship and their father Zebedee and followed him


    35. For all of the Jews and the Pharisees if they wash not their hands thoroughly eat not; for they held to the ordinance of the elders; And they ate not what was bought from the market except they washed it; and many other things did they keep of what they had received such as the washing of cups and measures and vessels of brass and couches; And scribes and Pharisees asked him Why do your disciples not walk according to the ordinances of the elders but eat bread without washing their handse Jesus answered and said to them Why do you also overstep the command of God by reason of your ordinance?God said Honour your father and your mother; and whoever reviles his father and his mother shall surely die; But you say If a man say to his father or to his mother What you receivest from me is an offering and you suffer him not to do any- thing for his father or his mother; and you make void and reject the word of God by reason of the ordinance that you have ordained and commanded such as the wash- ing of cups and measures and what resembles that you do much; And you forsook the command of God and held to the ordinance of men


    36. Those who entered forsook all hope


    37. From that day David Zebedee, this Simon, and their associates forsook their nets and followed Jesus


    38. Jesus did not forsake his earth family to do his Father's work -- they forsook him


    39. " And this woman, Hildana, forsook her wicked husband and joined herself to the disciples of the kingdom


    40. Shortly after David left him, and when John Mark observed Jesus withdraw, with Peter, James, and John, into a near-by ravine, he was so overcome with combined devotion and curiosity that he forsook his sentinel post and followed after them, hiding himself in the bushes, from which place he saw and overheard all that transpired during those last moments in the garden and just before Judas and the armed guards appeared to arrest Jesus

    41. 14 These, then, are the factors of mind and influences of evil which, taken altogether, explain why a well-meaning and otherwise onetime sincere believer in Jesus, even after several years of intimate association with his transforming personality, forsook his fellows, repudiated a sacred cause, renounced his holy calling, and betrayed his divine Master


    42. When I all weary had the chase forsook,


    43. For example, the Student Volunteer Movement ended after its leaders sided with liberal theology, forsook faith in the authority of God’s Word, and lost its commitment to world evangelism


    44. On the other side of the doctrinal divide, missions societies that forsook the true Gospel took up causes that helped African Americans


    45. On the cross, the Father forsook


    46. That was the reason why she forsook the comfort of the carriage and took a walk


    47. But the early Celts believed in me with all the power of their spirit and to them I was a generous god, I defended their villages many times against the Viking hordes and it was only when they forsook me and did not make the ritual sacrifice that I turned my face away from them


    48. but I forsook not thy precepts


    49. Forsook: To have left in an abandoned condition


    50. They forsook their cultural roots































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    Synonyms for "forsake"

    abandon desert desolate forsake leave quit discard drop disclaim forgo surrender forswear give up

    "forsake" definitions

    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch