Psalm 119:19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 39:17

because God has made it forget wisdom, and given it no share in understanding.

Psalm 119:10

With my whole heart I seek you; do not let me stray from your commandments.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you make us stray from your ways and harden our heart, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage.

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was concealed from them, so that they could not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.