Psalms 119:19
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy 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 strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Read in contextPsalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Read in contextHebrews 11:13–16
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Read in contextPsalms 119:10
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
Read in context1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Read in contextLuke 24:45
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Read in contextGenesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
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