Psalms 69:8
I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
In Context
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face.
Cross References
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 38:11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms 89:52Blessed be LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:15O LORD, thou know. Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in thy longsuffering. Know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
Matthew 10:21And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →