Psalm 119:19

Gimel

¹⁸ Open my eyes so that I may contemplate
wonderful things from Your instruction.
¹⁹ I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.
²⁰ I am continually overcome
with longing for Your judgments.

On Earth

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

Job 39:17

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

Psalm 119:10

I have sought You with all my heart;
don’t let me wander from Your commands.

Isaiah 63:17

Why, Yahweh, do You make us stray from Your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear You.
Return, because of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Luke 24:45

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.