Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Psalms 119:19 in other translations
| BSB | I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands. |
| DARBY | I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me. |
| BBE | I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me. |
| Webster | I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. |
What does Psalms 119:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:17-20
17-20. Life is desirable in order to serve God; that we may do so aright, we should seek to have our eyes opened to behold His truth, and earnestly desire fully to understand it.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:17-24
If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's law and gospel, must beg him to give them understanding, by the light of his Spirit. Believers feel themselves strangers on earth; they fear missing their way, and losing comfort by erring from God's commandments. Every…
Psalms 119:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:19
- 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.
- Psalms 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.
- Hebrews 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. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
- 1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Luke 24:45
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
- Genesis 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.
- Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
- Luke 9:45
But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
- Job 39:17
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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Context
- Psalms 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
- Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- Psalms 119:20
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Psalms 119:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Advenedizo soy yo en la tierra: no encubras de mí tus mandamientos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je suis étranger dans le pays; ne me cache pas tes commandements. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein Fremdling bin ich im Lande, verbirg nicht vor mir deine Gebote! |