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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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The contemplation of this holy law leads the Psalmist to express his
personal need of preservation and guidance....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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19:12 Purify (c-5) Or 'Clear.'...
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This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1 describe
the glory of God (_El_) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the
sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8; Psalms 19:7 deal with...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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_[Psalms 19:13]_ שְׁגִיאֹ֥ות מִֽי ־יָבִ֑ין
מִֽ נִּסְתָּרֹ֥ות...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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Psalms 19
_ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Psalms 19:12 understand H995 (H8799) errors H7691 Cleanse H5352
(H8761) secret H5641 (H8737)
can -...
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‘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...
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THE RESULTING PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND DECLARATION OF GOD'S
TOTAL RELIABILITY (PSALMS 19:12)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 9:7; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah
17:9;
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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...