Psalm 119:19

Gimel

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Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.
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I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.
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My soul is crushed with longing
For Your ordinances at all times.

On Earth

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

Job 39:17

For God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.

Psalm 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You];
Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]?
Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.

Luke 9:45

However, they did not understand this statement. Its meaning was kept hidden from them so that they would not grasp it; and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Luke 24:45

Then He opened their minds to [help them] understand the Scriptures,

Hebrews 11:13-16

All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.