You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins—and you see them all.
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.
- 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.
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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 my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
- Eccl 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
- Heb 4:12–13For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Jer 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
- Ps 19:12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
- Rev 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Jer 9:13–16Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
- Ps 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
- 1 Jn 3:20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- Ps 139:1–4For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
- Job 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
- Ps 80:16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- Rom 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
- Luke 12:1–2Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Ezek 8:12Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
- Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
- Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
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