Psalms 119:19

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
stranger	גֵּ֣ר ger	H1616	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
earth	בָאָ֑רֶץ va.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
hide	תַּסְתֵּ֥ר tas.Ter	H5641	to hide (by covering) · verb, hiphil jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
commandments	מִצְוֹתֶֽיךָ mitz.vo.Tei.kha	H4687	a command · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

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…
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…
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;
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…
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:19

Here we have, 1. The acknowledgment which David makes of his own condition: I am a stranger in the earth. We all are so, and all good people confess themselves to be so; for heaven is their home, and the world is but their inn, the land of their pilgrimage. David was a man that knew as much of the world, and was as well known in it, as most men. God built him a house, established his throne; strangers submitted to him, and people that he had not known served him; he had a name like the names of the great men, and yet he calls himself a stranger. We are all strangers on earth and must so account ourselves. 2. The request he makes to God thereupon: Hide not thy commandments from me. He means m…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth,.... As all his fathers were, and all the saints are; not to divine and spiritual things; to God, and communion with him; to Christ, and the knowledge of him; to the Spirit, and his operations in their hearts; to their own hearts, and the plague of them; to the Gospel, and its truths; nor to the people of God, and fellowship with them: but to the world, among whom they are, not being known, valued, and respected by them; and they also behaving as strangers to the world, having no fellowship with them in their sinful works; as also not being natives here, but belonging to another city and country, an heavenly one; see 1 Chronicles 29:15; hide not thy commandments…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:17-24

Psalm 119:17-24 g 17. Do good to thy servant, that! may live, and keep thy word. g 18. Open my eyes, and I shall see the marvelous things of thy law. g 19. I am a stranger on the earth: do not conceal from me thy commandments. g 20. My soul is rent with the desire it hath at all times unto thy judgments. g 21. Thou hast destroyed the proud, they are accursed that wander from thy commandments. g 22. Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. g 23. Princes also did sit, they spoke against me: thy servant meditated on thy statutes. g 24. Also thy testimonies are my delights, the men of my counsel. 17. Do good to thy servant The term gml gamal, which some render to…

The Church Fathers

Our wish, you see, is to attain to eternal life. We wish to reach the place where nobody dies, but if possible we do not want to get there via death. We would like to be whisked away there while we are still alive and see our bodies changed, while we are alive, into that spiritual form into which they are to be changed when we rise again. Who wouldn't like that? Isn't it what everybody wants? But while that is what you want, you are told, Quit. Remember what you have sung in the psalm: "A lodger am I on earth." If you are a lodger, you are staying in someone else's house; if you are staying in someone else's house, you quit when the landlord bids you. And the landlord is bound to tell you to quit sooner or later, and he has not guaranteed you a long stay. After all, he did not sign a contract with you. Seeing that you are lodging with him for nothing, you quit when he tells you to. And this, too, has to be put up with, and for this, too, patience is very necessary.
— Augustine of Hippo, SERMON 359A.8

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Dictionary and topics

Judgments of God — (1.) The secret decisions of God’s will (Ps. 110:5; 36:6). (2.) The revelations of his will (Ex. 21:1; Deut. 6:20; Ps. 119:7-175). (3.) The infliction of punishment on the wicked (Ex. 6:6; 12:12;…
Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Pilgrims And Strangers · Saints confess themselves — Saints confess themselves

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 119:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:19

John Gill on Psalms 119:19

John Calvin on Psalms 119:17-24

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:19

John Gill on Psalms 119:19

John Calvin on Psalms 119:17-24

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:17-24

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:17-24