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19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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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.
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 earth. …
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,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19)Here we have, 1. The acknowledgment which David makes of his own condition: I am a stranger in the earth . We all are so, and all good people confess themselves to be so; for heaven is their home, and the world is but their inn, the land of their pilgrimage. David was a man that knew as much of the world, and was as well known in it, as most men. God built him a house, established his throne; stra…
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