Psalms 119 · Verse 19

Psalms 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Psalms 119:19, King James Version

Psalms 119:19 in other translations

BSBI am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
WEBI am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
ASVI am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
YLTA sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
DARBYI am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
BBEI am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
WebsterI 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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 I am a stranger in the earth - In the land. Being obliged to wander about from place to place, I am like a stranger even in my own country. If it refer to the captives in Babylon, it may mean that they felt themselves there as in a state of exile; for, although they had been seventy years in it, they still felt it as a strange land, because they considered Palestine their home.

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…

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Psalms 119:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

גֵּ֣רger[am] a sojournerH1616
אָנֹכִ֣י'a.no.KhiIH595
בָאָ֑רֶץva.'A.retzon the earthH776
אַל\־'al-may notH408
תַּסְתֵּ֥רtas.Teryou hideH5641
מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּיmi.Me.nifrom meH4480
מִצְוֹתֶֽיךָ\׃mitz.vo.Tei.khacommandments yourH4687

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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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a stranger.
39:12; Ge 47:9; 1Ch 29:15; 2Co 5:6; Heb 11:13-16; 1Pe 2:11
hide.
10; Job 39:17; Isa 63:17; Lu 9:45; 24:45

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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.

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Psalms 119:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Advenedizo soy yo en la tierra: no encubras de mí tus mandamientos.
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!