Psalms 90:8

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
set	שַׁתָּ֣ה sha.Tah	H7896	to place (in a very wide application) · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
iniquities	עֲוֹנֹתֵ֣ינוּ 'a.vo.no.Tei.nu	H5771	perversity · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix
secret	עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ 'a.lu.Me.nu	H5956	to veil from sight · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
light	לִמְא֥וֹר lim.'or	H3974	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
countenance	פָּנֶֽיךָ pa.Nei.kha	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

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.
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.
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, a…
Psalms 10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 139:1-4 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
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;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:7-11

Moses had, in the foregoing verses, lamented the frailty of human life in general; the children of men are as a sleep and as the grass. But here he teaches the people of Israel to confess before God that righteous sentence of death which they were under in a special manner, and which by their sins they had brought upon themselves. Their share in the common lot of mortality was not enough, but they are, and must live and die, under peculiar tokens of God's displeasure. Here they speak of themselves: We Israelites are consumed and troubled, and our days have passed away. I. They are here taught to acknowledge the wrath of God to be the cause of all their miseries. We are consumed, we are troub…

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John Gill on Psalms 90:8

Thou hast set our sins before thee,.... The cause of all trouble, consumption, and death; these are before the Lord, as the evidence, according to which he as a righteous Judge proceeds; this is opposed to the pardon of sin, which is expressed by a casting it behind his back, Isaiah 38:17, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance; the Targum and Jarchi interpret it of the sins of youth; the word is in the singular number, and may be rendered, "our secret sin" (f); which has led some to think of original sin, which is hidden from, and not taken notice of by, the greatest part of the world, though it is the source and spring of all sin. It is not unusual for the singular to be put for…

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John Calvin on Psalms 90:3-8

Psalm 90:3-8 3. Thou shalt turn man to destruction, and shalt say, Return, ye sons of Adam. 4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is gone, and as a watch in the night. 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they will be a sleep: in the morning he shall grow as grass: 6. In the morning it shall flourish and grow: at the evening it shall be cut down, and shall wither. 7. For we fail by thy anger, and are affrighted by thy indignation. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 3 Thou shalt turn man to destruction. Moses, in the first place, mentions how frail and transitory is the life of man, and bewails its…

The Church Fathers

You have set our iniquities in your sight. Nothing of our sins has been hidden from you: all the evils we have committed are manifest before you.
— Jerome, Homily 67, on Psalm 89 (Alternate Series)

Our age in the light of your countenance. All that we live, or that we do, is not hidden from your eyes: the very darkness is not concealed from you.
— Jerome, Homily 67, on Psalm 89 (Alternate Series)

"You have set our misdeeds before You" [Psalm 90:8]: that is, You have not dissembled Your anger: "and our age in the light of Your countenance." "The light of Your countenance" answers to "before You," and to "our misdeeds," as above.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 90

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Dictionary and topics

Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Anger Of God, The · Against: Sin, in saints — Against: Sin, in saints
Secret · UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Sin · .Secret sins — .Secret sins

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 90:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:7-11

John Gill on Psalms 90:8

John Calvin on Psalms 90:3-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 90:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:7-11

John Gill on Psalms 90:8

John Calvin on Psalms 90:3-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 90:5-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 90:7-10

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 90:8