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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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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