New Revised Standard Version
If my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will take me up.

Contemporary English Version
Even if my father and mother should desert me, you will take care of me.

New American Bible
Even if my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will take me in.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.

For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.

When

Psalm 69:8 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

2 Samuel 16:11 And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden him.

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Matthew 10:21,22,36 The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death. . . .

the Lord

John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?

John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

take me up [heb.

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.