You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
All Commentaries on Psalms 90:8 Go To Psalms 90
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Life. Literally, "age. "Thou clearly discernest all our proceedings. (Haydock)
Man is condemned for Adam's sin. The Israelites who were fit for arms, and gave way to murmuring, were sentenced to die in the desert. He may allude to this event. (Berthier)
Hebrew may signify also, "our hidden things "or "youth "(Calmet) or "mistakes "(Houbigant) or "negligences. "(St. Jerome)
From these we should always pray to be delivered, Psalm xxiv. 7. (Haydock)
Sin occasions the shortness of life, (Worthington) as man was created to be immortal. (Haydock)
Before the deluge, men lived indeed longer. (Menochius)
