King James Version
Psalms 69:8 in the King James Version says “I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 69 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.”
Psalms 69:8 · KJV
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.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I am become a stranger”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“unto my brethren”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
“and an alien”
H5237strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
“children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“unto my mother's”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
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