English Standard Version
Psalms 139:13
13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Context of Psalms 139:13
11If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Read all of Psalms 139Psalms 139:13 word by word
כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה קָנִ֣יתָ כִלְיֹתָ֑י תְּ֝סֻכֵּ֗נִי בְּבֶ֣טֶן אִמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 139:13
- Job 10:9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
- Psalms 22:9Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
- Psalms 71:6Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.
- Job 31:15Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
- Isaiah 44:2Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 46:3"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;
- Jeremiah 1:5"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; 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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