Psalms 139:13
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
KJV
Cognovi quia faciet Dominus judicium inopis, et vindictam pauperum.
Vulgate
ἔγνων ὅτι ποιήσει Κύριος τὴν κρίσιν τοῦ πτωχοῦ καὶ τὴν δίκην τῶν πενήτων.
LXX
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
ASV
כִּֽי אַ֭תָּה קָנִ֣יתָ כִלְיֹתָ֑/י תְּ֝סֻכֵּ֗/נִי בְּ/בֶ֣טֶן אִמִּֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
י
y
noun · 72×
י
y
noun · 31×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נִי
ny
verb · 24×
קְנֵ֣ה
qnh
verb · 86×
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. David meditates on the omniscience and omnipresence of God. There is no place where God is not present, no thought which he does not know. The description of being fearfully and wonderfully made in the womb is a powerful testimony to God as Creator of each person. This knowledge is both comforting to the godly and terrifying to the w…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 12:17 — If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
- Eccl 11:5 — As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
- Isa 44:2 — Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
- Isa 44:24 — Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
- Isa 46:3 — Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
- Jer 1:5 — Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
- Job 10:9 — Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- Job 31:15 — Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
- Ps 22:9 — But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
- Ps 71:6 — By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
- Ps 100:3 — Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Ps 119:73 — Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
- Ps 139:15 — My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
- Rom 1:20 — For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: