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8I am become a stranger{H8716)} 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 neither did his brethren believe in him.
But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. …
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief. I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped thus to ease himself of a burden that lay very heaven upon him. 1. He complains of the deep impressions that his troubles made upon his spirit ( Ps. 69:1 , 2 ): “The waters of affliction , those bitter…
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