I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. As a stranger on earth I know not what things I ought to do, what to avoid: teach me both by revealing thy commandments. This earth is not the believer's home, but his lodging. As strangers must expect many inconveniences, do thou, who carest for the stranger, take me up (Gejer). The way of God's "commandments" is the way to the heavenly city, where God's people shall not be 'strangers,' but children in their Father's home. "Hide not" the way from me. Even in the earthly Canaan true Israelites felt themselves, as their fathers before them, (Hebrews 11:13), to be 'strangers and sojourners' (1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalms 39:12). Much more so Christians (1 Peter 2:11).