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Psa. 119:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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Heb. 11:13• ¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. (Heb. 11:13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)

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Gen. 47:9• ⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to 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 being always confident, and knowing that, while present in the body, we are absent from the Lord (2 Cor. 5:6)

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Heb. 11:13‑16• ¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
¹⁴For they that say such things make plain that they seek out a country.
¹⁵And if indeed they called to mind that from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to return;
¹⁶but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:13‑16)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)

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Psa. 119:10• ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee;{HR}Let me not wander from thy commandments. (Psa. 119:10)

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Job 39:17• ¹⁷For God hath caused her to forget wisdom,{HR}And hath not given her a portion in understanding; (Job 39:17)

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Isa. 63:17• ¹⁷O Jehovah, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways—hast thou 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, {i}and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And{/i} they feared to ask him concerning this saying. (Luke 9:45)

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Luke 24:45• ⁴⁵Then he thoroughly opened their understanding to 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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For me I [am] a sojourner in the earth:{HR}Hide not thy commandments from me.