Psa 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
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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.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. {sore: Heb. stroke} {my kinsmen: or, my neighbours}
For neither did his brethren believe in him.
And when he was gone out into the porch, another {maid} saw him, and said unto them that were there, This {fellow} was also with Jesus of Nazareth.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against {their} parents, and cause them to be put to death.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led {him} away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. {take...: Heb. gather me}
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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. {they have called...: or, they cried after thee fully} {fair...: Heb. good things}
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.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me}
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.