Sacred Concord

Bible on Loneliness

421 passages in the Bible address loneliness, in the King James Version translation.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Psalms 94:14 · Bible · Psalms
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Proverbs 4:6 · Bible · Proverbs
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
Ezekiel 35:14 · Bible · Ezekiel
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Romans 4:23 · Bible · Romans
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
Judges 10:13 · Bible · Judges
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
1 Kings 6:13 · Bible · 1 Kings
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 7:16 · Bible · Job
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:34 · Bible · Job
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms 40:15 · Bible · Psalms
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms 71:11 · Bible · Psalms
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms 107:4 · Bible · Psalms
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:8 · Bible · Proverbs
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Ecclesiastes 4:11 · Bible · Ecclesiastes
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 3:26 · Bible · Isaiah
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isaiah 54:7 · Bible · Isaiah
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:11 · Bible · Lamentations
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
John 12:7 · Bible · John
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:14 · Bible · Numbers
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Ezra 9:10 · Bible · Ezra
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:13 · Bible · Job
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Psalms 71:9 · Bible · Psalms
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Proverbs 28:4 · Bible · Proverbs
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 15:8 · Bible · Ezekiel
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Hosea 8:9 · Bible · Hosea
Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1 Thessalonians 3:1 · Bible · 1 Thessalonians
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:24 · Bible · Genesis
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Deuteronomy 1:9 · Bible · Deuteronomy
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 12:19 · Bible · Deuteronomy
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Joshua 24:16 · Bible · Joshua
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 7:19 · Bible · Job
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 10:20 · Bible · Job
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:12 · Bible · Jeremiah
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ezekiel 30:14 · Bible · Ezekiel
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah 6:13 · Bible · Micah
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Micah 7:13 · Bible · Micah
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Mark 4:10 · Bible · Mark
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
Mark 14:6 · Bible · Mark
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John 17:20 · Bible · John
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:28 · Bible · Job
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job 38:27 · Bible · Job
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Psalms 34:22 · Bible · Psalms
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalms 83:18 · Bible · Psalms
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:10 · Bible · Psalms
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs 9:12 · Bible · Proverbs
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:5 · Bible · Lamentations
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Proverbs 3:3 · Bible · Proverbs
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4:27 · Bible · Jeremiah
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 6:8 · Bible · Jeremiah
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:4 · Bible · Ezekiel
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
Matthew 19:27 · Bible · Matthew
And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.
Mark 6:47 · Bible · Mark
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1 Kings 8:57 · Bible · 1 Kings
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job 20:19 · Bible · Job
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms 37:25 · Bible · Psalms
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isaiah 17:2 · Bible · Isaiah
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 35:1 · Bible · Isaiah
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Jeremiah 18:16 · Bible · Jeremiah
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
Ezekiel 35:7 · Bible · Ezekiel
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Mark 4:34 · Bible · Mark
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Romans 11:3 · Bible · Romans
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