Psalms 119:19
17 Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
20 My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
21 You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- KJV
- I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- WEB
- I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
- ASV
- I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
- DARBY
- I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
- BLB
- I [am] a sojourner on the earth; do not hide from me Your commandments!
- ÅB
- Jeg er en gjest på jorden; skjul ikke dine bud for meg!
- OTB
- Jeg er en fremmed på jorden;
Skjul ikke dine bud for meg. - B1930
- Jeg er en gjest på jorden; skjul ikke dine bud for mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Read in contextPsalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Read in contextHebrews 11:13–16
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Read in contextPsalms 119:10
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
Read in context1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Read in contextLuke 24:45
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
Read in contextGenesis 47:9
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
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