KJV King James Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
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Psalm 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
WEB World English Bible
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
ASV American Standard Version
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.
Surrounding context — Psalm 69
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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Psalm 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.John 1:11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.John 7:5For neither did his brethren believe in him.Matthew 10:35-36For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.Matthew 26:70-74But he denied before [them] all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.Psalm 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.Micah 7:5-6Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.1 Samuel 17:28And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.Matthew 10:21-22And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.Job 19:13-19He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Matthew 26:56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.Matthew 26:48-50Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
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