When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then YHWH will take me up.
But in the end he is confident that even though his father and his mother forsake him, and he is cast off by his family and tribe, YHWH will take him up. We are reminded of Jesus' words to His disciples about the fact that some of them must expect rejection even by their own families (Matthew 10:21-22; Matthew 10:35-36; Mark 13:12-13). That is what can be the result of following Him wholly. For when men follow God they can never know what it will involve. But at such moments they can remember, ‘The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man will do to me' (Psalms 118:6, cited in Hebrews 13:6). Compare here Isaiah 49:15, ‘shall a woman forget her breast-feeding child, that she should not have compassion on the son that she bore? Yes she may forget, yet will I not forget you. Behold I have engraved you on the palm of my hand'.