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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
19:12-14 The Humble Response. Although some may use the law of God as a means of self-promotion, that is not what this psalm instills. Instead it leads the singers to reflect on their own moral failures, known and unknown; to rely on God's forgiveness; and to seek protection from sin's domination.
19:12 The word hidden shows the flow of thought in the psalm: just as the sun's heat searches every nook and cranny so that "there is nothing hidden from its heat" (v. 6), so too the law searches all the hiding places of the soul; the honest faithful can only ask God to declare them innocent. This prayer includes a request for forgiveness even from "hidden" sins which one does not remember, or which were committed in ignorance.
19:13 Presumptuous sins are sins committed in arrogant disregard of divine commands (Deut. 17:12). These, when repeated, come to have dominion, and thus to enslave. Instead the desire is to become blameless (which is what the law is; see ESV footnote on Ps. 19:7; see also note on 18:30). The term innocent points back to 19:12; there the singer asked to be declared innocent, while here he desires innocence in his own practice as well
19:14 Be acceptable comes from the language of sacrifice (as in Lev. 22:20); thus the request is that this song be a suitable act of worship before God, like a sacrifice.
