Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
In Context
18Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
20Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements alway.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are stragers before thee, and soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, and there is none abiding.
Psalms 39:12Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
Psalms 119:10With my whole heart haue I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandements.
Luke 9:45But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.
2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are alway bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.
1 Peter 2:11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
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 →