The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 90:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee. Instead of hiding his face from their iniquities, turning away from them and overlooking them, God has placed them steadily "before him," in the full searching and scorching light of his own purity and holiness.

And not only has he done this with the sins which they know of, and whereof their consciences are afraid; but he has set their secret sins also in the light of his countenance. (On man's "secret sins," comp.

Psalms 19:12, and the comment ad loc.

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