Psalms 69:8

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 atPsalms 31:11. And an alien unto my mother’s 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 mother’s 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 atPsalms 50:20.