Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 19:12
Understand] RV 'discern.' cleanse] RV 'clear,' in the sense of 'acquit.' Unconscious sins could be atoned for (Numbers 15:22), and for such sins forgiveness is asked here.
Understand] RV 'discern.' cleanse] RV 'clear,' in the sense of 'acquit.' Unconscious sins could be atoned for (Numbers 15:22), and for such sins forgiveness is asked here.
Verse Psalms 19:12. _WHO CAN UNDERSTAND_ HIS _ERRORS?_] It is not possible, without much of the Divine light, to understand all our _deviations_ from, not only the _letter_, but the _spirituality_, of...
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HIS ERRORS? - The word rendered errors is derived from a verb which means to wander, to go astray; then, to do wrong, to transgress. It refers here to wanderings, or departures from...
XIX. A. PSALMS 19:1. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN NATURE. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (see Job...
UNDERSTAND. discern. HIS. Not in Hebrew text. ERRORS. wanderings. Like those of the "planets" (= wanderers). CLEANSE. clear, or acquit. Hebrew. _nakah._ SECRET. hidden things; things that are not...
More exactly: Errors who can discern? From hidden (faults) clear thou me. Who can be aware of the manifold lapses of ignorance or inadvertence? Acquit me, do not hold me guilty in respect of them....
The contemplation of this holy law leads the Psalmist to express his personal need of preservation and guidance....
DISCOURSE: 522 PRAYER AGAINST SINS OF INFIRMITY AND PRESUMPTION Psalms 19:12. _Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; le...
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HIS ERRORS?— While we praise and adore God for his mercies, it seems impossible to forget one great circumstance which affects both them and ourselves; I mean, how undeserved they a...
PSALMS 19 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Greater than the Glory of God in the Heavens is the Grace of Jehovah in the Law. ANALYSIS A Composite Psalm: in which, by the mere force of Juxtaposition, the Grace of J...
_WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HIS ERRORS? CLEANSE THOU ME FROM SECRET FAULTS._ His errors, х_ SHªGIY'OWT_ (H7691), from _ SHAAGAH_ (H7686), to wander] - all failings and infirmities of the believer. The Hebrew...
19:12 Purify (c-5) Or 'Clear.'...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
His eulogium on the Law was not Pharisaic or formal, for the poet instantly gives expression to his sense of his own inability to keep it. If before we were reminded of St. Paul’s, “The law is holy, a...
_[Psalms 19:13]_ שְׁגִיאֹ֥ות מִֽי ־יָבִ֑ין מִֽ נִּסְתָּרֹ֥ות...
Psalms 19:1 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative is str...
THE WORKS AND THE WORD OF GOD Psalms 19:1 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1 were written at night, Psalms 19:1 was surely written by day. In...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
Who can understand [his] (l) errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults]. (l) Then there is no reward of duty, but of grace: for where sin is, there death is the reward....
This forms a most beautiful break and interruption to the Psalmist's devout contemplation. It comes in with a striking demand upon the heart, as if under a consciousness that having such discoveries m...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
_SECRET FAULTS_ ‘Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.’ Psalms 19:12 David does not merely mean what are hidden from other people, secret from the eye of the world. He means those which he himself is...
12._Who can understand his errors? _This exclamation shows us what use we should make of the promises of the law, which have a condition annexed to them. It is this: As soon as they come forth, every...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND [HIS] ERRORS?.... Sin is an error, a wandering out of the way of God, swerving from the rule of his word; and many mistakes are made by the people of God themselves; even so many th...
Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults]. Ver. 12. _Who can understand his errors?_] This David speaketh doubtless out of a deep sense of his own imperfections and defect...
_Who can understand his errors?_ Upon the consideration of the perfect purity of God's law, and the comparing of his spirit and conduct with it, he is led to make a penitent reflection upon his sins....
Who can understand, who can notice, who can keep track of, HIS ERRORS? How far is the ideal which the Christian holds before him from the reality in which he finds himself! Even the believer still has...
A PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and taug...
11-14 God's word warns the wicked not to go on in his wicked way, and warns the righteous not to turn from his good way. There is a reward, not only after keeping, but in keeping God's commandments....
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND? this may be here added, either, 1. As a further proof of the excellency and necessity of God's law, because men's errors are so many and hard to be discovered and prevented, that...
Psalms 19:12 understand H995 (H8799) errors H7691 Cleanse H5352 (H8761) secret H5641 (H8737) can -...
‘Who can discern his errors? Clear me from hidden faults.' But the Psalmist admits that although he delights in Yahweh's Instruction there are still errors and sins in his life that he is not easily...
THE RESULTING PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND DECLARATION OF GOD'S TOTAL RELIABILITY (PSALMS 19:12)....
Psalms 19:12 I. The first prayer, "Cleanse Thou me from secret faults," springs naturally out of the complaint, "Who can understand his errors?" Germs of evil are in our nature that can never be estim...
Psalms 19:12 I. How is it that sin possesses the power of deceiving; that, being foul, it can often look so fair, or where it cannot conceal altogether, can yet conceal to so large an extent, its nati...
This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1. Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Script...
This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two revelations which God has made to man. The first is the revelation which he has made in nature, and the second is that which he has made in his inspired...
CONTENTS: God's revelation of Himself in the book of nature, book of the law and the book of human life. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God makes Himself known through three great books, all of...
Psalms 19:4. _Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to_ _the end of the world._ The LXX, φθογγος, _phthoggos._ Vulgate, _sonus,_ their _sound;_ the music of their voice. The el...
_Who can understand his errors?_ Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. THE TENACITY AND SOPHISTRY OF SIN The vulgar vices reappear subtly disguised in cultured circles. The grossness of the vices has...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:1. In singing this psalm, God’s people celebrate his law as his supreme revelation of himself. The psalm recounts the way the creation speaks of its Maker (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:12 HIDDEN. Just as “there is nothing hidden” from the sun’s heat (v. Psalms 19:6), so too the law searches all the hiding places of the soul....
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly in...
EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the material creati...
Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handi...
1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 9:7; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah 17:9;
Who — Thy law, O Lord, is holy and just and good. But I fall infinitely short of it. Cleanse — Both by justification, through the blood of thy son; and by sanctification thro' thy holy spirit. Though...