Psalms 69:8
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
World English Bible
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 your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Cross References
Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Psalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Jeremiah 15:15LORD, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
Matthew 10:21“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against 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 →