Lexicon :: Strong's G683 - apōtheō

Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the LORD brought us out of Egypt? ’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

“The LORD will not abandon his people, because of his great name and because he has determined to make you his own people.

When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone ​— ​she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.

“I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

For the LORD had said, “I will also remove Judah from my presence just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, that I have chosen, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name will be there.’ ”

In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.

He is driven from light to darkness

and chased from the inhabited world.

Should God repay you on your terms

when you have rejected his?

You must choose, not I!

So declare what you know.

For you are the God of my refuge.

Why have you rejected me?

Why must I go about in sorrow

because of the enemy’s oppression?

But you have rejected and humiliated us;

you do not march out with our armies.

Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?

Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

God, you have rejected us;

you have broken us down;

you have been angry. Restore us![fn]

God, haven’t you rejected us?

God, you do not march out with our armies.

They only plan to bring him down

from his high position.

They take pleasure in lying;

they bless with their mouths,

but they curse inwardly.Selah

Why have you rejected us forever, God?

Why does your anger burn

against the sheep of your pasture?

“Will the Lord reject forever

and never again show favor?

He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,

the tent where he resided among mankind.

He rejected the tent of Joseph

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

abandoned[fn] among the dead.

I am like the slain lying in the grave,

whom you no longer remember,

and who are cut off from your care.[fn]

LORD, why do you reject me?

Why do you hide your face from me?

But you have spurned and rejected him;

you have become enraged with your anointed.

The LORD will not leave his people

or abandon his heritage,

God, haven’t you rejected us?

God, you do not march out with our armies.

I have sought you with all my heart;

don’t let me wander from your commands.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,

and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

My son, keep your father’s command,

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,

but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Anyone who ignores discipline despises himself,

but whoever listens to correction acquires good sense.[fn]

The one who plunders his father and evicts his mother

is a disgraceful and shameful son.

Moreover, you will be led out from here

with your hands on your head

since the LORD has rejected those you trust;

you will not succeed even with their help.[fn]

And you, devastated one, what are you doing

that you dress yourself in scarlet,

that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,

that you enhance your eyes with makeup?

You beautify yourself for nothing.

Your lovers reject you;

they intend to take your life.

Listen, earth!

I am about to bring disaster on these people,

the fruit of their own plotting,

for they have paid no attention to my words.

They have rejected my instruction.

“Cut off the hair of your sacred vow[fn] and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’ 

“They keep on saying to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has spoken: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’ ”

The Lord has rejected his altar,

repudiated his sanctuary;

he has handed the walls of her palaces

over to the enemy.

They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD

as on the day of an appointed festival.

I have been deprived[fn] of peace;

I have forgotten what prosperity is.

For the Lord

will not reject us forever.

“You have made us disgusting filth

among the peoples.

Water flooded over my head,

and I thought, “I’m going to die! ”

unless you have completely rejected us

and are intensely angry with us.

“She has rebelled against my ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.

“Therefore, as I live” ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“I will withdraw and show you no pity, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your abhorrent acts and detestable practices. Yes, I will not spare you.

“Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.’

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hethite and your father an Amorite.

“When she saw that she waited in vain,

that her hope was lost,

she took another of her cubs

and made him a young lion.

“ ‘But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and they rejected my ordinances ​— ​the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned my Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.

“because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.

“For they did not practice my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.