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Psalm 19

Psa. 19:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who can understand
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
his errors
shgiy'ah (Hebrew #7691)
a moral mistake
KJV usage: error.
Pronounce: sheg-ee-aw'
Origin: from 7686
? cleanse
naqah (Hebrew #5352)
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
KJV usage: acquit X at all, X altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, X by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, X utterly, X wholly.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
thou me from secret
cathar (Hebrew #5641)
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.
Pronounce: saw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
faults.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 40:12• 12For evils till there is no number have encompassed me;{HR}Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I have not been able to see;{HR}They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath left me. (Psa. 40:12)
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Job 6:24• 24Teach me, and I will be silent,{HR}And show me wherein I have erred. (Job 6:24)
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Isa. 64:6• 6But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isa. 64:6)
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1 Cor. 4:4• 4Nay, I do not examine even myself, for I am conscious to myself of nothing, yet I am not justified by this, but he that examineth me is the Lord. (1 Cor. 4:4)
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Heb. 9:7• 7but into the second the high priest alone once the year, not apart from blood, which he offereth for himself and for the errors of the people: (Heb. 9:7)
cleanse.
Psa. 51:5‑10• 5Behold, in iniquity was I born,{HR}And in sin did my mother conceive me.
 6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts,{HR}And in the hidden [part] thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
 7Purge me with hyssop,{HR}And I shall be clean; wash me,{HR}And I shall be whiter than snow.
 8Make me to hear joy and gladness;{HR}The bones thou hast broken shall rejoice.
 9Hide thy face from my sins,{HR}And blot out all mine iniquities.
 10Create for me a pure heart, O God,{HR}And a steadfast spirit renew within me. (Psa. 51:5‑10)
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Psa. 65:3• 3Iniquities have been far too strong for me:{HR}Our transgressions, thou wilt purge (cover) them. (Psa. 65:3)
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1 John 1:7• 7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)
secret.
Psa. 90:8• 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face. (Psa. 90:8)
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Psa. 139:2,23‑24• 2Thou knowest my sitting and my rising;{HR}Thou understandest (to) my thought from afar.
 23Search me, O God, and know my heart;{HR}Prove me, and know my thoughts;
 24And see if a way of grief [be] in me,{HR}And lead me in a way everlasting. (Psa. 139:2,23‑24)
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Lev. 4:2‑35• 2Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin inadvertently against any of Jehovah's commandments, that ought not to be done, and do any of them;
 3if the anointed priest sin to the trespass of the people, let him offer, for his sin which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish to Jehovah for a sin offering.
 4And he shall bring the bullock to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and slaughter the bullock before Jehovah.
 5And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it into the tent of meeting.
 6And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the sanctuary.
 7And the priest shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 8And all the fat of the bullock of the sin offering he shall take off from it: the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
 9and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys,
 10as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.
 11And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards and its dung,
 12even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt.
 13And if the whole assembly of Israel err and the thing be hid from the eyes of the congregation, and they have done any of all the commandments of Jehovah which should not be done, and are guilty;
 14and the sin wherein they have sinned against it is become known; then the congregation shall present a young bullock for the sin offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting.
 15And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and the bullock shall be slaughtered before Jehovah.
 16And the anointed priest shall bring of the bullock's blood into the tent of meeting;
 17and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah before the veil.
 18And he shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
 19And all its fat shall he take off from it and burn it on the altar.
 20And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them; and it shall be forgiven them.
 21And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering of the congregation.
 22When a ruler sinneth and through inadvertence doeth any of all the things which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty;
 23if his sin wherein he hath sinned come to his knowledge, he shall bring his offering, a buck of the goats, a male without blemish.
 24And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and slaughter it at the place where they slaughter the burnt offering before Jehovah; it is a sin offering.
 25And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
 26And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make an atonement for him from his sin; and it shall be forgiven him.
 27And if one (a soul) of the people of the land sin through inadvertence in doing any things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty;
 28if his sin which he hath sinned come to his knowledge, then he shall bring his offering a goat, a female without blemish for his sin which he hath sinned.
 29And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and slaughter the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering.
 30And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
 31And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet odour to Jehovah; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
 32And if he bring a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
 33And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering.
 34And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the bottom of the altar.
 35And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar with the fire offerings to Jehovah; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. (Lev. 4:2‑35)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
• But in this confidence, the effect of this nearness is to turn the eye to another point: the want of full self-knowledge, distrust of self. “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults.” In many thing's, although delighting in the word, and appreciating it when thinking of it. I may not have judged my own heart, or be able morally to prove it, so as to judge it according to that perfection: for there is growth in spiritual judgment. But there is integrity and confidence in the Lord, and he demands to be cleaned from his secret faults. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 18-21” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 12-14) The prayer of the godly to profit by these testimonies that appeal to the conscience. (“Psalm 19” by H. Smith)
• The soul desires to be so searched by the Word that it may discover that which God alone sees to be sin. (“Psalm 19” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who understandeth his errors? Purifyc me from secret faults.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "Clear."

W. Kelly Translation

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Errors—who discerneth them?{HR}Cleanse thou me from secret [ones].