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Psalm 19:14

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

12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
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The mouth and heart come under the same prayer, making God’s acceptance matter in both the words others hear and the thoughts they never hear.

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Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written …Both passages join the mouth with meditation: Joshua names God’s law as their content, while the psalm seeks God’s acceptance.
Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.Both texts seek what is acceptable to God, whether words and inward meditation or bodies presented as a living sacrifice.
Psalm 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.Both prayers express the desire that inward meditation would please the LORD.
Psalm 51:15Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.Both prayers bring the mouth before God, asking for acceptable words in one and lips opened for praise in the other.
Psalm 119:108Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. LORD, teach me your ordinances.Both prayers ask the LORD to accept what comes from the speaker’s mouth.
Psalm 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.Both address the LORD as a rock and name him as the one who redeems or delivers.
1 Peter 2:5You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.Both passages speak of what is acceptable to God; Peter specifies spiritual sacrifices offered through Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.The psalm seeks God’s acceptance in prayer, while Proverbs says the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.Both speakers name a redeemer as their own, with Job declaring that his Redeemer lives.
Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.Redemption is their shared thread: the psalm addresses the LORD as redeemer, and Titus describes Christ giving himself to redeem a people.
Hebrews 11:4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with …Both concern God’s approval: the psalm seeks acceptance for speech and meditation, while Hebrews recounts God’s favorable testimony about Abel’s gifts.
Ephesians 5:10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.Both texts make pleasing the Lord the aim, with the psalm naming speech and inward meditation.
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After asking forgiveness and help against sin, David asks God to accept his speech and thoughts. Your prayer for a pleasing life is addressed to YHWH, your rock and redeemer.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).