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Psalms 119:19
19I am a stranger on the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
Psalms 119:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- New International Version (NIV)I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
Context of Psalms 119:19
17Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word [treasuring it and being guided by it day by day]. 18Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law. I am a stranger on the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me. 20My soul is crushed with longing For Your ordinances at all times. 21You rebuke the presumptuous and arrogant, the cursed ones, Who wander from Your commandments.
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גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָאָ֑רֶץ אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי מִצְוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:19
- Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am Your temporary guest, A sojourner like all my fathers.
- Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].
- 2 Corinthians 5:6So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
- Hebrews 11:13All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
- 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
- Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You]; Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].
- Job 39:17For God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.
- Isaiah 63:17O Lord, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]? Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.
- Luke 9:45However, they did not understand this statement. Its meaning was kept hidden from them so that they would not grasp it; and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
- Luke 24:45Then He opened their minds to [help them] understand the Scriptures,
Commentaries on Psalms 119:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19I am a stranger in the earth - In the land. Being obliged to wander about from place to place, I am like a stranger even in my own country. If it refer to the captives in Babylon, it may mean that they felt themselves there as in a state of exile; for, although they had been seventy years in it, they still felt it as a strange land, because they considered Palestine their home.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19I am a stranger in the earth - A wayfaring man; a pilgrim; a so-journer; a man whose permanent home is not in this world. The word is applicable to one who belongs to another country, and who is now merely passing through a foreign land, or sojourning there for a time. Compare the notes at Hebrews 11:13. The home of the child of God is heaven. Here he is in a strange - a foreign - land. He is to abide here but for a little time, and then to pass on to his…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-24Verses 17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's law and gospel, must beg him to give them understanding, by the light of his Spirit. Believers feel themselves strangers on earth; they fear missing their way, and losing comfort by erring from God's commandments. Every sanctified soul hungers after…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-24Gimel (ג) is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. Like a stranger in a hostile land, God's servant needs God's guidance.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2017-20. Life is desirable in order to serve God; that we may do so aright, we should seek to have our eyes opened to behold His truth, and earnestly desire fully to understand it.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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