You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- KJV Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- NKJV You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
- NASB You have placed our guilty deeds before You, Our hidden sins in the light of Your presence.
- NLT You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins—and you see them all.
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Even our hidden sins are fully exposed before God's all-seeing presence.
Overview
Nothing is concealed from God; our "secret sins" stand in the full light of His presence. This unmasks any illusion that wrongdoing can be hidden. The verse drives us to the only refuge from exposure, the cleansing of Christ, in whom our sins are covered and forgiven (1 John 1:7-9).
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Cross-references · 18
- Jer 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- Eccl 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Heb 4:12–13For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Jer 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Ps 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
- Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
- Jer 9:13–16And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
- Ps 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- 1 Jn 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
- Ps 139:1–4For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
- Ps 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
- Rom 2:16on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
- Luke 12:1–2In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Ezek 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- Prov 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
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