Psalm 69:8-10

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⁸I have become a stranger to my brethren,
an alien to my mother’s sons.

⁹For zeal for thy house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
¹⁰When I humbled^[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.

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Psalm 69:10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept with fasting my soul or I made my soul mourn with fasting

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