Psalms 69:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.
  • John 7:5 : 5 For even his brothers had no belief in him.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. 14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. 15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. 16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. 19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
  • Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast. 6 For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.
  • Matt 10:21-22 : 21 And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death. 22 And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house.
  • Matt 26:48-50 : 48 Now the false one had given them a sign saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he: take him. 49 And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss. 50 And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
  • Matt 26:70-74 : 70 But he said before them all that it was false, saying, I have no knowledge of what you say. 71 And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene. 72 And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man. 73 And after a little time those who were near came and said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; because your talk is witness against you. 74 Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.

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    14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

    15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

  • Job 19:17-19
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    73%

    17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Ps 31:11-12
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    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

    12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

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    8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • Ps 69:19-20
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    19 You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

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    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

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    4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

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    11 My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

  • Ps 35:14-15
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    14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

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  • Deut 33:9
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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Ps 39:12
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