Psalms 139:16
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
KJV
Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Eventhe days that were ordainedfor me, When as yet there was none of them.
ASV
גָּלְמִ֤/י רָ֘א֤וּ עֵינֶ֗י/ךָ וְ/עַֽל סִפְרְ/ךָ֮ כֻּלָּ֪/ם יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ יָמִ֥ים יֻצָּ֑רוּ ו/לא וְ/ל֖/וֹ אֶחָ֣ד בָּ/הֶֽם
Hebrew
Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed--And not one among them.
YLT
Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in 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…
If God certainly foreknows all things, then all things are certainly determined. For to say that God foreknows a thing and yet that thing is not certain, is a contradiction. Foreknowledge proves certainty, and certainty proves some ground of certainty, which is what we mean by necessity. This does not destroy moral agency, for moral agency consists in intelligent, voluntary act…
Cross-references
- Exod 32:32 — Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- 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.
- Mal 3:16 — Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon h
- Ps 56:8 — Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- Ps 56:8 — Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- Rev 20:12 — And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were writte