Psalm 119:19
Old Testament • 4 words with Strong's data
"I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
גֵּר
gêr
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
סָתַר
çâthar
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
מִצְוָה
mitsvâh
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
Key Terms in This Verse
מִצְוָה mitsvâh
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
Study H4687 →Cross References
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.
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.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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...
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.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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