Psalms 69:8

I am become a stranger unto my brethren,.... Not only to the Jews in general, who were his own people and nation, to whom he came, and of whom he came; who received him not, hid as it were their faces…

I am become a stranger unto my brethren - That is, They treat me as they would a stranger; as one in whom they have no interest, and whom they regard with no friendship. Compare the notes at Psa…

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…

Even his nearest relations treat him as a stranger and a foreigner. Cp. Psa 38:11; Job 19:13 ff.; Jer 12:6.

my mother's children The sons of my own mother expresses a closer degree of relationship…