Holy Scripture
Psalms 68:9
A church father on this verse
“Damasus cleansed not, Peter cleansed not, Ambrose cleansed not, Gregory cleansed not; for ours is the ministry, but the sacraments are yours. For human power cannot confer what is divine, but it is, O Lord, your gift and that of the Father, as you have spoken by the prophets, saying, "I will pour out of my Spirit on a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9I became strange to my brethren, And a stranger to my mother’s children.
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7Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.
8For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; Shame has covered my face.
— Psalms 68:9 —
10For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11And I bowed down my soul with fasting, And that was made my reproach.