the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Psalms 19:12
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How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.
Who can discern his errors? clear thou me from hidden faults.
Who can discern [his] errors? Acquit me from hidden [faults].
People cannot see their own mistakes. Forgive me for my secret sins.
Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Who can understand his errors or omissions? Acquit me of hidden (unconscious, unintended) faults.
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Who vndurstondith trespassis? make thou me cleene fro my priuy synnes;
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
None of us know our faults. Forgive me when I sin without knowing it.
Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Through them your servant is warned; in obeying them there is great reward.
Who understandeth [his] errors? Purify me from secret [faults].
People cannot see their own mistakes, so don't let me commit secret sins.
Moreover by them is Thy servant warned; in keeping of them there is great reward.
Who can vnderstand his errours? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Who can see his own mistakes? Forgive my sins that I do not see.
But who can detect their errors? Clear me from hidden faults.
Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes.
Who can understand stumblings? Cleanse thou me from secret faults.
None of us can see our own errors; deliver me, Lord , from hidden faults!
Mistakes, who perceiveth? From things that are hidden, acquit me:
(18-13) Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:
But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
Who can knowe his owne errours? Oh cleanse thou me from those that I am not priuie of.
Who will understand his transgressions? purge thou me from my secret sins.
Who perceives his unintentional sins?Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Who can perceive his errors? Acquit me from hidden faults.
Who can discern errors? Acquit me from secret faults .
Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,
Who can tell, how oft he offendeth? Oh clese thou me fro my secrete fautes.
Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
can: Psalms 40:12, Job 6:24, Isaiah 64:6, 1 Corinthians 4:4, Hebrews 9:7
cleanse: Psalms 51:5-10, Psalms 65:3, 1 John 1:7
secret: Psalms 90:8, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Leviticus 4:2-35, Jeremiah 17:9
Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:2 - hidden Leviticus 5:17 - though Leviticus 13:6 - wash Numbers 15:22 - General Deuteronomy 21:6 - wash their hands Deuteronomy 21:8 - lay not 1 Kings 8:46 - there is no man Job 9:3 - he cannot Job 22:5 - thine Job 31:37 - declare Job 34:32 - which Psalms 51:2 - cleanse Psalms 69:5 - and my sins Ezekiel 45:20 - every one Romans 7:15 - what Romans 7:21 - evil Galatians 3:11 - that Galatians 5:17 - the flesh Philippians 3:9 - not Hebrews 10:26 - if 1 John 1:9 - and to
Cross-References
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 that they cannot number them; they are more than the hairs of their head; they cannot understand, find out and express, neither their number, nor their evil nature, nor the many aggravating circumstances which attend them: this the psalmist said, upon a view of the large extent, glory, and excellency of the word of God; and upon comparing himself with it, in which, as in a glass, he saw how far short he came of it, and what a disagreement and want of conformity there was in him unto it; see Psalms 119:97; and he suggests, that though the word he had been describing was perfect, pure, and clean, he was not; nor could he expect any reward of debt, but merely of grace, for his observance of it; and that it was best, under a sense of sin, to have recourse, not to works of righteousness done by men; but to the grace and mercy of God in Christ, as follows:
cleanse thou me from secret [faults]; by which are meant not such sins as are done in secret, and are unknown to men; such as David's sin with Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 12:12; nor the inward motions of sin in the heart, to which none are privy but God, and a man's own soul; not but that each of these may be properly enough included in such a petition; but sins, which are unknown to a man himself are meant: there are some actions, which, though known when committed, are not known to be sinful ones; and there are some sins which are committed unadvisedly, and through carelessness, and pass unobserved; not only many vain and sinful thoughts pass to and fro uncontrolled, without being taken notice of; but many foolish and idle words are spoken, and many evil actions, through infirmity and inadvertency, are done, which, when a good man, at the close of a day, comes to reflect upon the things that have passed in it, are quite hidden from him, are unknown to him, being unobserved by him; wherefore such a petition is highly proper to be inserted in his address at the throne of grace: and which also supposes the person sensible of the defiling nature of sin, and of his own impotency to cleanse himself from it; and that God only can do it, who does it by the application of the blood of his Son, which cleanses from all sin; for this respects not regenerating and sanctifying grace, but pardoning grace; a manifestation of it, a view of acquittance from sin by Christ, and of freedom from obligation to punishment for it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 the law of God, and the question seems to have been asked in view of the purity, the strictness, and the extent of the law of God. In view of a law so pure, so holy, so strict in its demands, and so extended in its requirements - asserting jurisdiction over the thoughts, the words, and the whole life - who can recall the number of times that he has departed from such a law? A sentiment somewhat similar is found in Psalms 119:96, “I have seen an end of all perfection; thy commandment is exceeding broad.” The language is such as every man who has any just sense of the nature and the requirements of the law, and a just view of his own life, must use in reference to himself. The reason why any man is elated with a conviction of his own goodness is that he has no just sense of the requirements of the law of God; and the more anyone studies that law, the more will he be convinced of the extent of his own depravity.
Hence, the importance of preaching the law, that sinners may be brought to conviction of sin; hence the importance of presenting it constantly before the mind of even the believer, that he may be kept from pride, and may walk humbly before God. And who is there that can understand his own errors? Who can number up the sins of a life? Who can make an estimate of the number of impure and unholy thoughts which, in the course of many years, have flitted through, or found a lodgment in the mind? Who can number up the words which have been spoken and should not have been spoken? Who can recall the forgotten sins and follies of a life - the sins of childhood, of youth, of riper years? There is but one Being in the universe that can do this. To Him all this is known. Nothing has escaped His observation; nothing has faded from His memory. Nothing can prevent His making a full disclosure of this if He shall choose to do so. It is in His power at any moment to overwhelm the soul with the recollection of all this guilt; it is in His power to cover us with confusion and shame at the revelation of the judgment-day. Our only hope - our only security - that He will not do this, is in His mercy; and that He may not do it, we should without delay seek His mercy, and pray that our sins may be so blotted out that they shall not be disclosed to us and to assembled worlds when we appear before Him.
Cleanse thou me from secret faults - The word here rendered secret means that which is hidden, covered, concealed. The reference is to those errors and faults which had been hidden from the eye of him who had committed them, as well as from the eye of the world. The sense is, that the law of God is so spiritual, and so pure, and so extended in its claims, that the author of the psalm felt that it must embrace many things which had been hidden even from his own view - errors and faults lying deep in the soul, and which had never been developed or expressed. From these, as well as from those sins which had been manifest to himself and to the world, he prayed that he might be cleansed. These are the things that pollute the soul; from these the soul must be cleansed, or it can never find permanent peace. A man who does not desire to be cleansed from all these “secret faults” cannot be a child of God; he who is a child of God will pray without ceasing that from these pollutions of the soul he may be made pure.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 the Divine law. Frequent self-examination, and walking in the light, are essentially necessary to the requisite degree of spiritual perfection.
Cleanse thou me from secret faults.] From those which I have committed, and have forgotten; from those for which I have not repented; from those which have been committed in my heart, but have not been brought to act in my life; from those which I have committed without knowing that they were sins, sins of ignorance; and from those which I have committed in private, for which I should blush and be confounded were they to be made public.
