Psalms 139:13

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

11And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night; 12Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light. For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb. 14I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well. 15My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

Psalms 139:13 word by word

כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה קָנִ֣יתָ כִלְיֹתָ֑י תְּ֝סֻכֵּ֗נִי בְּבֶ֣טֶן אִמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear

• wombבֶּ֫טֶןbeţen · belly: wombH990

Cross-references for Psalms 139:13

• Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
• Psalms 22:9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.
• Psalms 71:6On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be continually of thee.
• Job 31:15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
• Isaiah 44:2thus saith Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
• Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:
• Jeremiah 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I hallowed thee, I appointed thee a prophet unto 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

Topics related to Psalms 139:13

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In the dictionaries

• Attain
• Continuance
• Count
• Cover
• Curiously
• Fearfully
• Hold
• Reins
• Sum
• Uprising

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