Bible Verses About Forgetting God

Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them,

and increased your herds, flocks, silver, gold and everything else you own,

you will become proud-hearted. Forgetting ADONAI your God - who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves;

While still green, before being cut down, it dries up faster than any other plant.

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of a hypocrite will perish -

Though all this came on us, we did not forget you; we have not been false to your covenant;

Our hearts have not turned back, and our steps did not turn away from your path,

though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

For you have forgotten the God who saved you, failed to remember the Rock of your strength; so you plant pagan-style gardens and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.

Though you make them grow on the day you plant them, and in the morning your seedlings flower; the crop will vanish the day disease comes, a day of incurable pain.

You have forgotten ADONAI, your maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. Instead, you are in constant fear all day because of the oppressor's rage, as he prepares to destroy! But where is the oppressor's rage?

The captive will soon be set free; he will not die and go down to Sh'ol; on the contrary, his food supply will be secure.

For I am ADONAI your God, who stirs up the sea, who makes its waves roar - ADONAI-Tzva'ot is my name.