Psalms 119:19
I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
In Context
18Open thou my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
20My soul breaks for the longing that it has to thine ordinances at all times.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 119:10With my whole heart I have sought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Luke 9:45But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they did not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:19
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Observe here, 1. That there are wondrous things in God's law, which we are all concerned, and should covet, to behold, not only strange things, which are very surprising and unexpected, but excellent things, which are to be highly esteemed and valued, and things which were long hidden from the wise and prudent, but are now revealed unto babes. If there were wonders in the law, much more in the gospel, where Christ is all in all, whose name… Read the whole commentary →