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Psalms 119:19
19I live like a stranger here on the earth. Please do not hide your commands 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
17Please be kind to me, your servant. Then I will live and I will obey your message. 18Open my eyes wide! Then I will see great things in your Law. I live like a stranger here on the earth. Please do not hide your commands from me. 20I really want to obey your rules all the time. I want that more than anything else. 21You warn people who are proud. If they turn away from your commands, you will surely punish them.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:19 word by word
גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָאָ֑רֶץ אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי מִצְוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:19
- Psalms 39:12Lord, please hear my prayer. Listen to me when I call to you for help. Do not turn away from me when I weep. I need your help, like a foreign person who lives away from his home. I live on earth as a stranger, like all my ancestors did.
- Genesis 47:9Jacob replied, ‘I have been alive for 130 years. My years have been few, and they have been difficult. I have not lived for as long as my ancestors lived.’
- 1 Chronicles 29:15We are like strangers and foreign people who live in your world. Our ancestors also lived in that way. We live here only for a short time and then we disappear, like a shadow. We know that we will die one day.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6Because God's Spirit is with us, we continue to be brave. While we still live here on earth, we know that we are not yet at home with the Lord.
- Hebrews 11:13All these people continued to believe God until they died. But they did not receive all the things that God had promised to give them. They were like people who saw those things far away. That made them happy. These people understood that they lived as strangers and travellers on the earth.
- 1 Peter 2:11My friends, remember that you are really strangers in this world. You do not belong here. So I am telling you not to do the bad things that your bodies may want to do. Those bad things fight against what is good for your soul.
- Psalms 119:10I bring all my thoughts to you. Do not let me forget to obey your commands.
- Job 39:17This is because I did not give wisdom to ostriches. I did not give them minds that understand things.
- Isaiah 63:17Lord, why do you cause us to turn away from your ways? You make our minds become hard, so that we do not obey you. Please come back to help us, because we are your servants. We are the tribes that you have chosen for yourself!
- Luke 9:45But they did not understand what Jesus had said. Its meaning was a secret to them, so they could not understand. But they were afraid to ask Jesus, ‘What do you mean?’
- Luke 24:45Then he helped them to understand God's message in the Bible.
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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