Psalms 89:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Posuisti iniquitates nostras in conspectu tuo ; sæculum nostrum in illuminatione vultus tui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔθου τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἐνώπιόν σου, ὁ αἰὼν ἡμῶν εἰς φωτισμὸν τοῦ προσώπου σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 90:8
- שת עֲוֺנֹתֵ֣ינוּ לְנֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ לִמְא֥וֹר פָּנֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
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)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XC
8. “Thou hast set our misdeeds before Thee” ( ver. 8 ): that is, Thou hast not dissembled Thine anger: “and our age in the light of Thy countenance.” “The light of Thy countenance” answers to “before Thee,” and to “our misdeeds,” as above.
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIX
15. “Let them alway be against the Lord” ( ver. 14 ). “Against the Lord,” meaneth in the Lord’s sight: for other translators have rendered this line, “let them be always in the sight of the Lord;” while others have rendered it, “let them be before the Lord alway;” as it is elsewhere said, “Thou hast set our misdeeds in Thy sight.” By “alway,” he meaneth that this great crime should be without pardon, both here, and in a future life. “Let the memorial of them perish from off the earth:” that is, of his father and of his mother. By memorial of them, he meaneth, that which is preserved by successive generations: this he prophesied should perish from the earth, because both Judas himself, and his sons, who were the memorial of his father and mother, without any succeeding offspring, as it is said above, were consumed in the short space of one generation.…