Psalms 90:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 90:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee - Thou hast arrayed them, or brought them forth to view, as a “reason” in thy mind for cutting us down. Death may be regarded as proof that God has brough...
Psalms 90:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

BOOK IV. PSS. XC.- CVI. XC. Man's Mortality and his Refuge in the Ever-living God. Psalms 90:1-6 . The nothingness of man's life, the eternity of God's life. Psalms 90:7-10 . It is the sinf...
Psalms 90:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

iniquities. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44. secret. Hebrew is singular; hence we cannot supply "sins" but "[sin]". But some codices, with two early printed editions, read "secrets" (plural)
Psalms 90:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee. To show that by this complaint he is far from intending to murmur against God, he asserts that the Divine anger, however terrible it had been, was...
Psalms 90:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Psalms 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee - Every one of our transgressions is set before th...
Psalms 90:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow - i:e., if one be possessed of an unusually strong constitution, and thereby his years reach foursc...
Psalms 90:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Our secret sins. — Or, to keep the singular of the original, our secret (character). The expression, “light of God’s countenance,” usually means “favour.” But here the word rendered light is not...
Psalms 90:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:1-17 THE sad and stately music of this great psalm befits the dirge of a world. How artificial and poor, beside its restrained emotion and majestic simplicity, do even the most deeply fe...
Psalms 90:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Message of the Passing Years Psalms 90:1-17 The majestic music of this great psalm separates it from all the rest. It is like the deep bass stop of a mighty organ. Moses' authorship is stam...
Psalms 90:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The main purpose of this psalm is revealed in the prayer with which it concludes (vv. Psa 90:13-17). This prayer is prefaced by a meditation on the frailty of man (vv. Psa 90:3-12), in the light of e...
Psalms 90:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are several beautiful figures, illustrative of man's short and transitory state of existence: first, as a flood, whose tide never stops a moment from flowing, but sweeps everything before it: ne...
Psalms 90:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 op...
Psalms 90:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. Ver. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee ] As a judge doth the misdeeds of a malefactor, toge...
Psalms 90:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

We are consumed by thine anger Caused by our sinful state and lives. Thou dost not suffer us to live so long as we might do by the course of nature. And by thy wrath are we troubled The generatio...
Psalms 90:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Penitent Submission. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniq...
Psalms 90:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou dost not now cover, or blot out, or pass by our sins, as thou hast usually done to thy people; but thou dost diligently search them out, and accurately observe them, as a severe but righteous Ju...
Psalms 90:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A prayer of Moses the man of God .” “The Psalm is described in the title,” says Hengstenberg, “as a prayer . This description shows, as Amyraldus saw, that the kern...
Psalms 90:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90 This Psalm sets out with the definite statement of a theologic doctrine: the doctrine of the eternity of God. I. This splendid thought of the Divine eternity is made to touch the shifti...
Psalms 90:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. It may help us to understand this Psalm if we recollect the circumstances which surrounded Moses when he was in the desert. For forty years, he had to see a whole ge...
Psalms 90:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The fourth book of Hebrew psalms opens here. The characters of the composition are majestic and sublime beyond imitation. The Chaldaic says, that this was a prayer of Moses, when the Hebrews were cut...
Psalms 90:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. The prayer of Moses The propriety of the title is confirmed by the psalm’s unique simplicity and grandeur; its appropriateness to his...
Psalms 90:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE ascription of this psalm in the title to Moses must be admitted to be very remarkable. No other psalm is so ascribed. Nor indeed is a date given to any other earlier than the ti...
Psalms 90:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Mercy of God Man's Only Refuge. A prayer of Moses, the man of God, the prophet who stood in the relation of an intimate friend to the God of Israel, who here contrasts man's frailty, the conse...
Psalms 90:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:5 ; 1 John 3:20 ; Ecclesiastes 12:14 ; Ezekiel 8:12 ; Hebrews 4:12 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Jeremiah 16:17 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Jeremiah 9:13-16 ; Job 34:21 ; Luke 12:1 ; Luke 12:2...
Psalms 90:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hast set — Thou dost observe them, as a righteous judge, and art calling us to an account for them. Secret sins — Which though hid from the eyes of men, thou hast brought to light by thy judgments....

Psalms 90:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 90:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 90:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 90:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 90:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 90:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 90:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 90:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 90:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 90:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes