Psaume 119:19

19 Je suis un étranger sur la terre: Ne me cache pas tes commandements!

Psaume 119:19 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 119:19

I [am] a stranger in the earth
As all his fathers were, and all the saints are; not to divine and spiritual things; to God, and communion with him; to Christ, and the knowledge of him; to the Spirit, and his operations in their hearts; to their own hearts, and the plague of them; to the Gospel, and its truths; nor to the people of God, and fellowship with them: but to the world, among whom they are, not being known, valued, and respected by them; and they also behaving as strangers to the world, having no fellowship with them in their sinful works; as also not being natives here, but belonging to another city and country, an heavenly one; see ( 1 Chronicles 29:15 ) ;

hide not thy commandments from me;
the doctrines of the Gospel, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations; which is pure, and enlightens the eyes, and so needful to strangers in their pilgrimage, ( Psalms 19:8 ) ( 105:8 ) ; which God sometimes hides from the wise and prudent, and which the psalmist here deprecates with respect to himself, ( Matthew 11:25 Matthew 11:26 ) . Or the precepts of the world may be meant, which are a light to the feet, and a lamp to the paths, a good direction to travellers and strangers in the way: David, being such an one, prayed that these might not be hid from him, but be showed unto him; that he might know his way, and not go out of it; but walk as a child of light, wisely and circumspectly.

Psaume 119:19 In-Context

17 Fais du bien à ton serviteur, pour que je vive Et que j'observe ta parole!

18 Ouvre mes yeux, pour que je contemple Les merveilles de ta loi!

19 Je suis un étranger sur la terre: Ne me cache pas tes commandements!

20 Mon âme est brisée par le désir Qui toujours la porte vers tes lois.

21 Tu menaces les orgueilleux, ces maudits, Qui s'égarent loin de tes commandements.