Psalms 119:19

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“I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.”

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BSBPD

“I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“A sojourner I <FI>am<Fi> on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 119:19 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  3. Job 39:17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
  4. 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.
  5. Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
  6. Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  7. Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  8. Luke 9:45But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
  9. Luke 24:45Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
  10. 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
  11. Hebrews 11:13All 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 earth.
  12. 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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