Human Pilgrimage
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.


I. I am as a stranger in the earth because of THE IMPERMANENCE OF MY POSITION. Here we have no continuing city.

II. I am as a stranger in the earth because of MY LIFE AND LANGUAGE. If there be but a slight difference between the Christian and the secularist, it is because the Christian has not been "transformed by the renewing of his mind," for though bearing a new name he carries an old nature. We instantly detect a foreigner by so small a sign as an accent or a posture; and the Christian is known to men of the world by a glance or tone, by a frown or smile. This should be the Christian's business as a stranger — to operate as the light, not as the lightning — to master men by attraction, and not by reprobation.

III. I am a stranger in the earth because of THE PERILS TO WHICH I AM EXPOSED. The adventurous explorer feels that he is in constant danger.

(J. Parker, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
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.




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