Psalms 69:8
\69:7\I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
In Context
Cross References
Job 19:13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
Psalms 38:11\38:10\My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
Psalms 89:52\89:51\The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
Isaiah 53:3Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
Matthew 10:21And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put 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 →