Psalms 69:8
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
In Context
9I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
Cross References
Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
Psalms 38:11My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
Psalms 89:52Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.
Isaiah 53:3Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have sufferred reproach.
Matthew 10:21The 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.
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 →