Psalms 69:8
I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
In Context
7It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;
9It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.
Cross References
Psalms 38:11My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbors stand afar off.
Psalms 89:52Blest be the Lord, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen.
Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put 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 →