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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90:8 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
  • BSB You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
  • 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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Quick answer

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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Jer 16:17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • Eccl 12:14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
  • Heb 4:12–13For 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.
  • Jer 23:24Can 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.
  • Ps 19:12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
  • Rev 20:12And 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.
  • Jer 9:13–16And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
  • Ps 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
  • 1 Jn 3:20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
  • Ps 139:1–4O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  • Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
  • Ps 80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
  • 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
  • Rom 2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
  • Luke 12:1–2In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
  • Ezek 8:12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
  • Ps 50:21These 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.
  • Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 90:8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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