ANSWER: Most scholars agree that David was the inspired author of this psalm. In verse nineteen he confesses that he is a stranger to this world and prays that his eyes would be opened to God’s Word so that he might behold the wondrous things of the world to come. This is what the Hebrews writer discusses in Chapter 11:13-14 as he writes about the faith of certain men and women who lived under the Old testament: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a better country.”