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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, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, 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 off and embraced them, 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 fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Psa. 39:12• ¹²Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, 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 sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. (Gen. 47:9)

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1 Chron. 29:15• ¹⁵For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life. (1 Chron. 29:15)

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2 Cor. 5:6• ⁶Therefore we are always confident, and know 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 off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
¹⁴For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.
¹⁵And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;
¹⁶but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has 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 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: let me not wander from thy commandments. (Psa. 119:10)

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Job 39:17• ¹⁷For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. (Job 39:17)

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Isa. 63:17• ¹⁷Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast 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 should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying. (Luke 9:45)

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

• (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)

• 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)

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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."