Psalms 119:19 meaning and explanation

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Psalms 119:19, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the psalmist, praying to God in the long acrostic poem of Psalm 119, which circles again and again around love for God's law. Calling himself a stranger or sojourner, he uses a word for a resident alien, someone without a permanent home or inherited place.

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