I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
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I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
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I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
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(69-9) I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
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Passages linked to Psalms 69:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 31:11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
- John 1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
- John 7:5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
- Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- Micah 7:5-6 Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth! For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
- Matthew 10:35-36 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
- Matthew 26:70-74 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.” Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.” After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.” Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.
- 1 Samuel 17:28 Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
- Job 19:13-19 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
- Isaiah 53:3 He 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.
- Matthew 10:21-22 “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. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- Matthew 26:48-50 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.” Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
- Matthew 26:56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my…
Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Ver. 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren] No otherwise than as if I were a mamzer (so the Hebrews call a bastard), that is, a strange blot to the family. Christ came to his own, but they received him not; yea, his own brethren believed not on him, Joh 7:5 This, when the Turks read in our Gospel, they wonder; and the Jews, therefore, slander his miracles, for not so manifest as we conceive.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My nearest kinsmen estranged themselves from me; partly out…
My nearest kinsmen estranged themselves from me; partly out of fear, test they should be involved in my sufferings; and chiefly out of dislike of his piety and excessive zeal in religion, as it here follows.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I am become a stranger unto my brethren,.... Not…
I am become a stranger unto my brethren,.... Not only to the Jews in general, who were his own people and nation, to whom he came, and of whom he came; who received him not, hid as it were their faces from him, and rejected him as the Messiah; but also to such who were still nearer akin to him, according to the flesh, who did not believe in him, Joh 7:5; and even in some sense to his disciples and followers; some of which having heard some doctrines delivered by him not agreeable to them, withdrew from him, and walked no more with him, Joh 6:60; yea, to his apostles, whom he often called his brethren: one of these betrayed him, another denied him with oaths and cursing, and all of them forsook him and fled, when he was taken by his enemies, and about to suffer death;
and an alien unto my mother's children; which is the same as before, in other words. The Targum is,
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"as the son of the Gentiles to my mother's children;''
that is, as an Heathen to them; see Mat 18:17.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I am become a stranger unto my brethren -…
I am become a stranger unto my brethren - That is, They treat me as they would a stranger; as one in whom they have no interest, and whom they regard with no friendship. Compare the notes at Psa 31:11.
And an alien unto my mother’s children - A foreigner; one of another tribe or nation; one to whom they were bound by no tie of relationship. The allusion in the language “unto my mother’s children” is intended to denote the most intimate relationship. In families where a man had many wives, as was common among the Hebrews, the nearest relationship would be denoted by being of the same “mother” rather than of the same “father.” See the notes at Psa 50:20. The same thing occurs also where polygamy is not practiced, in cases where a man has married more wives than one. The idea of the psalmist here, therefore, is, that his nearest relatives treated him as if he were a stranger and a foreigner. Compare Job 19:13-19.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. A stranger unto my brethren—Historically, no doubt, the…
8. A stranger unto my brethren—Historically, no doubt, the statement might measurably be applied to David, but prophetically and more emphatically to Christ. Mar_3:21; Joh_7:5
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. Even his nearest relations treat him as a…
8. Even his nearest relations treat him as a stranger and a foreigner. Cp. Psa_38:11; Job_19:13 ff.; Jer_12:6.
my mother’s children] The sons of my own mother expresses a closer degree of relationship than my brethren, the children of the same mother being always regarded as bound to one another by a closer tie than those of the same father by different mothers. Cp. Psa_50:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Mother’s children.—See Note Son_1:6.
(8) Mother’s children.—See Note Son_1:6.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and…
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother"s children. The preference of David over all his elder brethren was calculated to arouse their jealousy; (1Sa_16:6-13) and Eliab"s hostile feeling is distinctly shown in 1Sa_17:28. We may gather from Ps 38, as well as from the present passage, that the alienation continued, and was not confined to Eliab.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 8. I am become a stranger unto my…
Ver. 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren. The Jews his brethren in race rejected him, his family his brethren by blood were offended at him, his disciples his brethren in spirit forsook him and fled; one of them sold him, and another denied him with oaths and cursings. Alas, my Lord, what pangs must have smitten thy loving heart to be thus forsaken by those who should have loved thee, defended thee, and, if need be, died for thee.
And an alien unto my mother's children. These were the nearest of relatives, the children of a father with many wives felt the tie of consanguinity but loosely, but children of the same mother owned the band of love; yet our Lord found his nearest and dearest ones ashamed to own him. As David's brethren envied him, and spake evil of him, so our Lord's relatives by birth were jealous of him, and his best beloved followers in the hour of his agony were afraid to be known as having any connection with him. These were sharp arrows of the mighty in the soul of Jesus, the most tender of friends. May none of us ever act as if we were strangers to him; never may we treat him as if he were an alien to us: rather let us resolve to be crucified with him, and may grace turn the resolve into fact.
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Ver. 8. A stranger unto my brethren. Unless this aversion of his brethren had pained him, he would not have complained of it. It would not have pained him unless he had felt a special affection for them. Musculus.
Ver. 8. In the east where polygamy prevails, the husband is a stern and unfeeling despot; his harem a group of trembling slaves; and the children, while they regard their common father with indifference or terror, cling to their own mother with the fondest affection, as the only part, as the only parent, in whom they feel an interest. Hence it greatly aggravated the affliction of David that he had become an alien unto his mother's children: the enmity of the other children of his father, the children of his father's other wives, gave him less concern. W. Greenfield, in Comprehensive Bible.
Ver. 8-9.
I. A grievous trial.
II. An honourable reason for it: for Christ's sake.
III. Consoling supports under it.
Psalms 69:9*
Ver. 8-9.
I. A grievous trial.
II. An honourable reason for it: for Christ's sake.
III. Consoling supports under it.
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