Psalms 19:12-14

12 ¹Who can discern his errors? ²Declare me innocent from ³hidden faults.

13 ⁴Keep back your servant also from ⁵presumptuous sins; let them not have ⁶dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my ⁷rock and my ⁸redeemer.

Psalms 19:12-14 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm was penned by David, and inscribed to the chief musician, as others, to be used in public service, and was designed for Gospel times, as the subject of it shows; which is first, not an account of the light of nature, and then of the law of Moses, but of the Gospel of Christ; and especially as ministered in the times of the apostles, as a citation out of it in Romans 10:18, makes clear.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 40:12; [1 Corinthians 4:4]
• 2. [Leviticus 4:2; Numbers 15:27]
• 3. Psalms 90:8; See Job 34:32
• 4. Genesis 20:6; 1 Sam. 25:33, 34, 39
• 5. [Numbers 15:30]
• 6. Psalms 119:133; Romans 6:12, 14
• 7. See Psalms 18:2
• 8. See Job 19:25