Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 139:13
13For it was you who created my inward 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 hide me, and the light around me will be night” — 12even the darkness is not dark to you. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to you. For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well. 15My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was formed 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 10:9Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
- Psalms 22:9It was you who brought me out of the womb, making me secure at my mother’s breast.
- Psalms 71:6I have leaned on you from birth; you took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always about you.
- Job 31:15Did not the one who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same God form us both in the womb?
- Isaiah 44:2This is the word of the Lord your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb: He will help you. Do not fear, Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
- Jeremiah 1:5I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you 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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