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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:19

In 11 translations

BSB
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
KJV
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
WEB
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
ASV
I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
LSV
I [am] a sojourner on earth, || Do not hide Your commands from me.
YLT
A sojourner I [am] on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
DBY
I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
DRC118:19
I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
GNV
I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
JPS
I am a sojourner in the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.
LXXE118:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָאָ֑רֶץ אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי מִצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br118:19
Πάροικος ἐγώ εἰμι ἐν τῇ γῇ, μὴ ἀποκρύψῃς ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὰς ἐντολάς σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
  • Hebrews 11:13–16All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Now…
  • Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
  • 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
  • Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
  • Luke 24:45Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
  • Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  • Luke 9:45But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
  • Job 39:17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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