Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 119:45, seeking precepts brings freedom — the positive outcome of the request here that commandments not be hidden.
In Psalm 119:125, the psalmist asks for discernment to understand statutes — echoing the request here for commandments not to be hidden.
Psalm 39:12 also calls oneself a sojourner with God, reinforcing the humble, transient status the psalmist uses to plead for divine commandments.
Genesis 47:9 describes Jacob's life as a sojourn, echoing the psalmist's confession of being a sojourner on earth.
1 Chronicles 29:15 declares that we are strangers and sojourners before God, directly paralleling the psalmist's self‑identification.
Luke 24:45 depicts God granting what the psalmist begged for — opening minds to understand God's word.
Hebrews 11:13-16 directly picks up this 'stranger on earth' theme, describing OT faithful as exiles seeking a heavenly homeland.
In 1 Peter 2:11, Peter explicitly calls believers 'sojourners and exiles' — the same identity that prompts the psalmist's prayer for guidance.
Genesis 23:4 has Abraham declaring himself a 'sojourner and foreigner' — the same identity the psalmist claims when asking for God's commands.
In Leviticus 25:23, God calls Israelites 'foreigners and strangers' in His land — the same identity the psalmist claims here, grounding his plea for commandments.
Exodus 2:22 has Moses calling himself a 'sojourner in a foreign land' — the literal exile that the psalmist applies spiritually to life on earth.
Isaiah 63:17 laments that God causes wandering from His ways — contrasting with the psalmist's plea for God not to hide His commands.