Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
BSB
ASV
I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
KJV
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
I am a stranger in the earth - A wayfaring man; a pilgrim; a so-journer; a man whose permanent home is not in this world. The word is applicable to one who belongs to another country, and who is now merely passing through a foreign land, or sojourning there for a time. Compare the notes at Heb 11:13. The home of the child of God is heaven. Here he is in a strange - a foreign - land. He is to abide here but for a little time, and then to pass on to his eternal habitation. Hide not thy commandments from me - Make me to know them; keep them continually before me. In this strange land, away from my home, let me have the comfort of feeling that thy commands are ever with me to guide me; thy promises to comfort me. The feeling is that of one in a strange land who would desire, if possible, to keep up constant communications with his home - his family, his friends, his kindred there. On earth, the place of our sojourning - of our pilgrimage - the friend of God desires to have constant contact with heaven, his final home; not to be left to the desolate feeling that he is cut off from all contact with that world where he is forever to dwell.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
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All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
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Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on…
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Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
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The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
