Psalms 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90:8 in other translations
| BSB | You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. |
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| WEB | You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. |
| ASV | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
| YLT | Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, |
| DARBY | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
| BBE | You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. |
| Webster | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
What does Psalms 90:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 90:7-8
7-8. For--A reason, this is the infliction of God's wrath. troubled--literally, "confounded by terror" (Psa 2:5). Death is by sin (Ro 5:12). Though "secret," the light of God's countenance, as a candle, will bring sin to view (Pr 20:27; 1Co 4:5).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 90:7-11
The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen coming from the displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to God, and shall be reckoned for. See the folly of those who go about to cover their sins, for they cannot do so. Our years, when gone, can no more be recalled than the words that we have spoken. Our whole life is toilsome and…
Psalms 90:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 90:8
- Jeremiah 16:17
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
- Psalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
- Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
- Psalms 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
- Jeremiah 9:13-16
And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
- Psalms 139:1-4
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
- Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- 1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
- Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
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Context
- Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- Psalms 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalms 90:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pusiste nuestras maldades delante de ti, nuestros yerros á la luz de tu rostro. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu as mis devant toi nos iniquités, devant la lumière de ta face nos fautes cachées. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du hast unsere Ungerechtigkeiten vor dich gestellt, unser verborgenes Tun vor das Licht deines Angesichts. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis, et retributionem peccatorum videbis. |