Psalm 19:13-14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 19:13

‘Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me, Then will I be upright, And I will be clear from great transgression.’ Indeed he prays that God will keep him, as God’s true servant, from sinning presumptuously. In context this surely means from deliberately disobeying His Instruction. That he does not want to do. Although he recognises that he does sin unwittingly, for he longs to be delivered from the dominion of sin, he wants to be delivered from a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 19:14

‘Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, Be acceptable in your sight, O YHWH, my rock, and my redeemer. So does he want to be right in mouth and heart so as to behave in a way that is totally acceptable to God. And he finishes with the heartfelt prayer that in both the words of his mouth and the thoughts of his heart he might be acceptable in God’s sight. He recognises that it is what is in the heart that defiles a man (Mark 7:20-23). As a man thinks in his heart, so is he... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 19:1-14

XIX. A. Psalms 19:1-Joshua : . 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 3:3-2 Samuel : *). Psalms 19:3 is a prosaic gloss to guard against any idea that the heavenly bodies speak in the literal sense. Psalms 19:4 . for “ line” read “ voice.”— In them: i.e. “ in the heavens,” but the text is probably corrupt. XIX. B. Psalms 19:7-1 Chronicles : . An... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 19:13

Keep back, or restrain, or withdraw; which word is emphatical, and signifies man’s natural and great proneness even to the worst of sins, and the necessity of God’s grace, as a bridle, to keep men from rushing upon them. Having begged pardon for his former errors, he now begs grace to keep him from relapses for the time to come. From presumptuous sins; from known and evident sins, such as are committed against knowledge and deliberation with design, and resolution, and eagerness, with... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 19:14

Having prayed that God would keep him from sinful actions, he now prays that God would govern and sanctify his words and thoughts, wherein he had many ways offended, as he here implies, and oft in this book confesseth and bewaileth. And this he the rather doth, because this caution was very necessary to preserve him from presumptuous sins, which have their first rise in the thoughts, and thence proceed to words and expressions, before they break forth into actions. Be acceptable in thy sight,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 19:1-14

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 influences of its light and heat upon the earth; secondly, by inviting their attention to the revealed law, which is more especially adapted to impress them with a sense of God’s superintending care, and to increase their understanding and knowledge of the Divine power and will. The psalm, therefore,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 19:12-14

Psalms 19:12-14 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 estimated or counted. You may trace and track sin in its outward manifestations, you may reach it inwardly in its volitions or movements of voluntary choice, but still more deeply seated is the mystery of iniquity in the inner man. II. In your spiritual exercise of soul upon Jehovah's law, you find... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 19:12-13

DISCOURSE: 522PRAYER AGAINST SINS OF INFIRMITY AND PRESUMPTIONPsalms 19:12-13. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.THE moral law, as revealed in the Scriptures, is a perfect transcript of the mind and will of God; and is therefore a mirror in which we may see how deformed we are through the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 19:14

redeemer Heb. "goel," Redemp. (Kinsman type). (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Psalms 19:13

Presumptuous Sins June 7, 1857 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins." Psalms 19:13 . All sins are great sins, but yet some sins are greater than others. Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion, and is full of the essential marrow of traitorous rejection of God. But there be some sins which have in them a greater development of the essential mischief of rebellion, and which wear upon their faces more of the brazen pride which defies the Most... read more

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