Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
In Context
18Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 119:10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Luke 9:45But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from 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 →