I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;(A)
for zeal for your house consumes me,(B)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(C)
10 When I weep and fast,(D)
    I must endure scorn;
11 when I put on sackcloth,(E)
    people make sport of me.

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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.

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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(A)I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;
(B)Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
(C)And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
11 I also [a]made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.

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  1. Psalm 69:11 Symbolic of sorrow

18 Come near and rescue me;
    deliver(A) me because of my foes.

19 You know how I am scorned,(B) disgraced and shamed;
    all my enemies are before you.
20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(C) but I found none.(D)

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18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You know (A)my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
20 Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of [a]heaviness;
(B)I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for (C)comforters, but I found none.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:20 Lit. sickness