Psalm 69:8 {68:9}
Good News Translation
I am like a stranger to my relatives, like a foreigner to my family.

New Revised Standard Version
I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.

Contemporary English Version
I am like a stranger to my relatives and like a foreigner to my own family.

New American Bible
I have become an outcast to my kindred, a stranger to my mother’s children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

become

Psalm 31:11 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Matthew 26:48-50,56,70-74 And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Hold him fast. . . .

John 1:11 He came unto his own: and his own received him not.

John 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

and an alien

1 Samuel 17:28 Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle.

Micah 7:5,6 Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom. . . .

Matthew 10:21,22,35,36 The 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. . . .

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 8I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.…
Cross References
Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

Psalm 31:11
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 38:11
My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Songs 1:6
Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

Jeremiah 12:6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Psalm 69:7
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