Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
8. 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 than my brethren, the children of the same mother being always regarded as bound to one another by a closer tie than those of the same father by different mothers. Cp. Psa 50:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 31:11.
And an alien unto my mothers children – A foreigner; one of another tribe or nation; one to whom they were bound by no tie of relationship. The allusion in the language unto my mothers children is intended to denote the most intimate relationship. In families where a man had many wives, as was common among the Hebrews, the nearest relationship would be denoted by being of the same mother rather than of the same father. See the notes at Psa 50:20. The same thing occurs also where polygamy is not practiced, in cases where a man has married more wives than one. The idea of the psalmist here, therefore, is, that his nearest relatives treated him as if he were a stranger and a foreigner. Compare Job 19:13-19.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
My nearest kinsmen estranged themselves from me; partly out of fear, test they should be involved in my sufferings; and chiefly out of dislike of his piety and excessive zeal in religion, as it here follows.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 from him, and rejected him as the Messiah; but also to such who were still nearer akin to him, according to the flesh, who did not believe in him, Joh 7:5; and even in some sense to his disciples and followers; some of which having heard some doctrines delivered by him not agreeable to them, withdrew from him, and walked no more with him, Joh 6:60; yea, to his apostles, whom he often called his brethren: one of these betrayed him, another denied him with oaths and cursing, and all of them forsook him and fled, when he was taken by his enemies, and about to suffer death;
and an alien unto my mother’s children; which is the same as before, in other words. The Targum is,
“as the son of the Gentiles to my mother’s children;”
that is, as an Heathen to them; see Mt 18:17.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) Mothers children.See Note Son. 1:6.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8. A stranger unto my brethren Historically, no doubt, the statement might measurably be applied to David, but prophetically and more emphatically to Christ. Mar 3:21; Joh 7:5
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Oh! how precious are these words of our Christ! And how were they all fulfilled in his own sacred person! When he came to his own, his own received him not. And was not Jesus treated worse than a stranger, when, though their law commanded them to remember the heart of a stranger, yet of Jesus, their Brother after the flesh, they said, As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is? Joh 1:10-11 ; Deu 10:19 ; Joh 9:29 . Christ’s zeal for his Father’s honor was so manifested in the temple, that the disciples were struck with it, and immediately remembered this very scripture; Joh 2:17 . And the reproaches Christ sustained, the Holy Ghost, by his servant the apostle Paul, directly applied to him in a plain scripture, Rom 15:3 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Ver. 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren ] No otherwise than as if I were a mamzer (so the Hebrews call a bastard), that is, a strange blot to the family. Christ came to his own, but they received him not; yea, his own brethren believed not on him, Joh 7:5 This, when the Turks read in our Gospel, they wonder; and the Jews, therefore, slander his miracles, for not so manifest as we conceive.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a stranger. Compare Joh 1:11.
children = sons.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
become: Psa 31:11, Job 19:13-19, Mat 26:48-50, Mat 26:56, Mat 26:70-74, Joh 1:11, Joh 7:5
and an alien: 1Sa 17:28, Mic 7:5, Mic 7:6, Mat 10:21, Mat 10:22, Mat 10:35, Mat 10:36
Reciprocal: Job 19:3 – make yourselves strange to me Psa 27:10 – When Psa 54:3 – strangers Son 1:6 – my mother’s Jer 12:6 – thy brethren
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Very few people sided with David. Even his closest relatives had turned against him.