Psalms 69:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 31:11 : 11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.
  • Ps 38:11 : 11 Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
  • John 7:5 : 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 When David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said,“Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the wilderness? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!”
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. 14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. 18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. 19 All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
  • Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets! 6 For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.
  • Matt 10:21-22 : 21 “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
  • Matt 26:48-50 : 48 (Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying,“The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”) 49 Immediately he went up to Jesus and said,“Greetings, Rabbi,” and kissed him. 50 Jesus said to him,“Friend, do what you are here to do.” Then they came and took hold of Jesus and arrested him.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
  • Matt 26:70-74 : 70 But he denied it in front of them all:“I don’t know what you’re talking about!” 71 When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there,“This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.” 72 He denied it again with an oath,“I do not know the man!” 73 After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said,“You really are one of them too– even your accent gives you away!” 74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath,“I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 69:9-11
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    9Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

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  • Ps 69:7
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    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

  • Job 19:13-15
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    78%

    13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

    14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

    15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

  • Job 19:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.

    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

  • Ps 31:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

    12I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

  • Ps 88:8
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    8You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

  • Ps 69:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

  • Job 19:3
    70%

    3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • Ps 109:25
    70%

    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 30:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

    10They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

  • Lam 3:14
    69%

    14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

  • Ps 79:4
    69%

    4We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

  • Ps 38:11
    69%

    11Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

  • Ps 35:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

  • Deut 33:9
    69%

    9He said to his father and mother,“I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.

  • Job 17:6
    69%

    6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • Ps 39:12
    68%

    12Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am a foreign resident with you, a temporary settler, just as all my ancestors were.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

  • Jer 15:10
    68%

    10Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”

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    68%

    48To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”

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  • Jer 12:7-8
    2 verses
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    68%

    8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

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    68%

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    67%

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    3When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

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    67%

    3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

  • Luke 8:20
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    20So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

  • Isa 8:18
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    18Look, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

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    7Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

  • Ps 54:3
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    3For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life.(Selah)

  • Ps 27:10
    67%

    10Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the LORD would take me in.

  • Ps 18:45
    67%

    45foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.

  • Ps 119:19
    67%

    19I am a resident foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

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    33He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”

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