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Psalms 69:8

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

KJV

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.

ASV

כִּֽי עָ֭לֶי/ךָ נָשָׂ֣אתִי חֶרְפָּ֑ה כִּסְּתָ֖ה כְלִמָּ֣ה פָנָֽ/י

Hebrew

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

YLT

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

חֶרְפַּ֥ת
chrpt
noun · 70×
יִּשְׂא֥וּ
ysh'v
verb · 652×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 30×
מְכַסֶּ֣ה
mksh
verb · 152×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Jer 12:6 — For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee
  • Job 19:3 — These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 19:13 — He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
  • 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.
  • Matt 10:35 — For 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.
  • Matt 26:70 — But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
  • Ps 27:10 — When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
  • Ps 31:11 — I 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.
  • Ps 38:11 — My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
  • Song 1:6 — Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.