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I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

69:8 stranger unto my brethren. This is a prophecy often fulfilled in the lives of those who yield their hearts unreservedly to Christ, but most specifically fulfilled in the unbelief of Christ’s own human siblings. Note John 7:3-5. Also note the psalm speaks of “my mother’s children,” since Christ had no human father.


69:9 eaten me up. Cited in John 2:17, in reference to Christ’s purging of the temple, an act which certainly incurred the wrath of the religious leaders who were desecrating the temple with their covetousness.


69:9 fallen upon me. This verse is quoted and applied to Christ by Paul in Romans 15:3.


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