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King James Version

Psalms 119:19

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Wisdom;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Life;   Pilgrimage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pilgrims and Strangers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Citizenship;   Foreigner;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proselyte;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I am only a foreigner in the land. Don't hide your commands from me!
English Revised Version
I am a sojourner in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Update Bible Version
I am a sojourner in the earth: Don't hide your commandments from me.
New Century Version
I am a stranger on earth. Do not hide your commands from me.
New English Translation
I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!
Webster's Bible Translation
I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
World English Bible
I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
Amplified Bible
I am a stranger on the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
English Standard Version
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am a comeling in erthe; hide thou not thin heestis fro me.
Berean Standard Bible
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
Contemporary English Version
I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.
American Standard Version
I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
Bible in Basic English
I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Though I'm just a wanderer on the earth, don't hide your mitzvot from me.
Darby Translation
I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
Easy-to-Read Version
I feel like a stranger visiting here on earth. I need to know your commands. Don't keep them hidden from me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am a sojourner in the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.
King James Version (1611)
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
New Life Bible
I am a stranger on the earth. Do not hide Your Word from me.
New Revised Standard
I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
George Lamsa Translation
I am a sojourner with thee; hide not thy commandments from me.
Good News Translation
I am here on earth for just a little while; do not hide your commands from me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A sojourner, am, I, in the earth, Do not hide from me, thy commandments.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-19) I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Revised Standard Version
I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Christian Standard Bible®
I am a resident alien on earth;do not hide your commands from me.
Hebrew Names Version
I am a stranger on the eretz. Don't hide your mitzvot from me.
Lexham English Bible
I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Literal Translation
I am an alien in the earth; hide not Your Commandments from me.
Young's Literal Translation
A sojourner I [am] on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am a strauger vpo earth, O hyde not thy commaundementes fro me.
New American Standard Bible
I am a stranger on the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
New King James Version
I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am a sojourner in the earth;Do not hide Your commandments from me.

Contextual Overview

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

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a stranger: Psalms 39:12, Genesis 47:9, 1 Chronicles 29:15, 2 Corinthians 5:6, Hebrews 11:13-16, 1 Peter 2:11

hide: Psalms 119:10, Job 39:17, Isaiah 63:17, Luke 9:45, Luke 24:45

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:4 - stranger Exodus 2:22 - for he said Leviticus 25:23 - for ye are Psalms 119:7 - when Psalms 119:45 - for I seek Psalms 119:125 - that I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 from me; the doctrines of the Gospel, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations; which is pure, and enlightens the eyes, and so needful to strangers in their pilgrimage, Psalms 19:8; which God sometimes hides from the wise and prudent, and which the psalmist here deprecates with respect to himself, Matthew 11:25. Or the precepts of the world may be meant, which are a light to the feet, and a lamp to the paths, a good direction to travellers and strangers in the way: David, being such an one, prayed that these might not be hid from him, but be showed unto him; that he might know his way, and not go out of it; but walk as a child of light, wisely and circumspectly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Hebrews 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:19. I am a stranger in the earth — In the land. Being obliged to wander about from place to place, I am like a stranger even in my own country. If it refer to the captives in Babylon, it may mean that they felt themselves there as in a state of exile; for, although they had been seventy years in it, they still felt it as a strange land, because they considered Palestine their home.


 
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