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Psalms 139:13
13For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb.
Psalms 139:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
- New International Version (NIV)For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.
Context of Psalms 139:13
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, And the night will be the only light around me,” 12Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You, But the night shines as bright as the day; Darkness and light are alike to You. For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb. 14I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. 15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was being formed in secret, And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.
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כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה קָנִ֣יתָ כִלְיֹתָ֑י תְּ֝סֻכֵּ֗נִי בְּבֶ֣טֶן אִמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 139:13
- Job 10:9Remember now, that You have made me as clay; So will You turn me into dust again?
- Psalms 22:9Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb; You made me trust when on my mother’s breasts.
- Psalms 71:6Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day. My praise is continually of You.
- Job 31:15Did not He who made me in the womb make my servant, And did not the same One fashion us both in the womb?
- Isaiah 44:2This is what the Lord who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you says, ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And Jeshurun (Israel, the upright one) whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me,” [says the Lord], “O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been carried by Me from your birth And have been carried [in My arms] from the womb,
- Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Commentaries on Psalms 139:13
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13For thou hast possessed my reins - The word here rendered “possessed” means properly to “set upright,” to “erect,” and hence, the derivative of the verb is applied to a cane or reed, as being erect. Then the word means to found, to create, Genesis 14:19, Genesis 14:22 - as the heavens and the earth; and then, to get, to gain, to purchase, etc. Here the word seems to be used in its original sense, to make, create, etc. The idea is, not as in our…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13my inmost being: The delicate inner parts of the body include a person's very being. Even when hidden in his mother’s womb, the psalmist was guided by the Lord.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 13For You created my reins which think all my thoughts.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 139
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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