A moment in scripture
Psalms 69:8
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I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 69:6
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
- Psalms 69:7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
- Psalms 69:10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.