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Psalms 119:19

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

KJV

I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

ASV

גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָ/אָ֑רֶץ אַל תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗/נִּי מִצְוֺתֶֽי/ךָ

Hebrew

A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

YLT

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
גֵּ֖ר
gr
noun · 92×
ו
v
noun · 183×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 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.
  • 1Chr 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.
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 2Cor 5:6 — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • Exod 2:22 — And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
  • Gen 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
  • Gen 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 of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
  • Gen 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 of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
  • Heb 11:13 — 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 confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
  • Heb 11:13 — 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 confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
  • Isa 63:17 — O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
  • Luke 9:45 — But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
  • Luke 24:45 — Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
  • Ps 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 fathers were.
  • Ps 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 fathers were.
  • Ps 119:10 — With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:45 — And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.