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Psalm 27:10

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

8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
9Don’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.
10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
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Notice

The possibility of a father and mother forsaking their child touches the fear of losing even the closest bonds, yet the psalm expresses trust in YHWH’s care.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!Both passages acknowledge that a parent’s care can fail while affirming that God’s care endures.
Isaiah 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.The LORD taking up the forsaken and the shepherd gathering lambs in his arm both portray God’s care.
John 16:32Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, …Both speak of being left by others while expressing confidence that God has not left.
Matthew 10:36A man’s foes will be those of his own household.Both texts face the failure of family bonds, though Matthew describes hostility and the psalm speaks of abandonment.
2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.Both speak of abandonment by people who might have been expected to stay and help.
Psalm 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.Both psalms name estrangement within the closest family ties, one involving parents and the other brothers.
Matthew 10:21–22“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.Both describe broken parent-child bonds, though Matthew speaks of betrayal leading to death and the psalm of being forsaken.
Exodus 2:8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.The shared detail is a mother: Exodus describes her being called to her child, while the psalm considers parental abandonment.
John 9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”The psalm trusts the LORD to take up someone forsaken; John describes Jesus finding a man others had thrown out.
2 Samuel 16:11David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, …Both passages describe the failure of close family bonds, with David naming a son who seeks his life.
Where this verse fits

Family conflict. loneliness.

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Encouragement

The psalm leaves the pain of parental abandonment in view. Its confidence rests in YHWH: even when those closest to you forsake you, his care remains.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).