Psalms 90:8

(8) 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 the usual one employed in that expression, but rather means a body of light: “the sun (or eye) of Thy countenance.” Comp.:“Then Seeva opened on the accursed oneHis eye of anger.”SOUTHEY: Curse of Kehama,