if the Lord

Genesis 25:22
But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

Exodus 33:14-16
And the LORD answered, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." . . .

Numbers 14:14, 15
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. . . .

Romans 8:31
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

why then

Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Deuteronomy 30:17, 18
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, . . .

Psalm 77:7-9
"Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? . . .

Psalm 89:49
Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You swore steadfastly to David?

Isaiah 59:1, 2
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. . . .

Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

our fathers

Psalm 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in days of long ago.

Psalm 78:3, 4
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us. . . .

forsaken us

Deuteronomy 31:17
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?'

2 Chronicles 15:2
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Psalm 27:9
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Jeremiah 23:33
"Now when this people, or a prophet or a priest, asks you, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' you are to say to them: 'What oracle? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.'