Psalm 119:19

Gimel

¹⁸ Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law! ¹⁹ I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me! ²⁰ I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

On Earth

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord --

Job 39:17

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

Psalm 119:10

With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

Isaiah 63:17

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,