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I am a strangerf in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear 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. (Psa. 39:12)

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Heb. 11:13• ¹³These 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. (Heb. 11:13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear 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. (Psa. 39:12)

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Gen. 47:9• ⁹And 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. (Gen. 47:9)

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1 Chron. 29:15• ¹⁵For 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. (1 Chron. 29:15)

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2 Cor. 5:6• ⁶Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (2 Cor. 5:6)

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Heb. 11:13‑16• ¹³These 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.
¹⁴For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
¹⁵And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
¹⁶But 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. (Heb. 11:13‑16)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Psa. 119:10• ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. (Psa. 119:10)

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Job 39:17• ¹⁷Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. (Job 39:17)

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Isa. 63:17• ¹⁷O 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. (Isa. 63:17)

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Luke 9:45• ⁴⁵But 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. (Luke 9:45)

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Luke 24:45• ⁴⁵Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, (Luke 24:45)

• A good God, (whose servants we are,) and an evil world, make a man “a stranger” (we much more, through Christ). (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:1-24” by J.N. Darby)

• (vv. 19-24) The remaining verses present the effect of an obedient walk as a servant of the Lord in a world of sin. (“Psalm 119:17-24: Division 3 (Gimel)” by H. Smith)

• First, the one who serves, and is subject to God, in the midst of a rebellious world, will of necessity find himself “a stranger in the earth.” But earth’s strangers are God’s friends; hence the desire of the soul to walk in closest intimacy with God— “Hide not Thy commandments from me” (cf. Gen. 18:17). (“Psalm 119:17-24: Division 3 (Gimel)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I am a stranger in the landc; hide not thy commandments from me.

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Or "on the earth."