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Psalms 139:13
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For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.
For it was you who created my inward parts;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
You formed the way I think and feel. You put me together in my mother's womb.
For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother's womb.
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
You are the one who put me together inside my mother's body,
For you fashioned my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb.
For Thou hast made my reins; Thou hast knit me together in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.
For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother’s womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb.
Indeed you created my inward parts; you wove me in my mother's womb.
For You have possessed my inward parts; You wove me in the womb of my mother.
You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother's body.
Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
For You made the parts inside me. You put me together inside my mother.
For, thou, didst possess thyself of my reins, thou didst weave me together in the womb of my mother.
(138-13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
For thou hast made my heart; thou hast accepted me from my mothers womb.
You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.
For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
For thou hast my reynes in thy possession: thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe.
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
For thou haddist in possessioun my reines; thou tokist me vp fro the wombe of my modir.
For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
For you formed my inward parts: You covered me in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
I wil geue thakes vnto the, for I am woderously made: maruelous are thy workes, and that my soule knoweth right well.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.
For You formed my inward parts;You wove me in my mother's womb.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For thou: Job 10:9-12
covered me: Psalms 22:9, Psalms 22:10, Psalms 71:6, Job 31:15, Isaiah 44:2, Isaiah 46:3, Jeremiah 1:5
Reciprocal: Job 3:11 - when I came Psalms 100:3 - it is he Psalms 139:15 - when I Isaiah 44:24 - and he Romans 1:20 - from the 1 Corinthians 12:17 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou hast possessed my reins,.... His thoughts and counsels, the reins being the seat of instruction and counsel; hence God is called the trier of the reins, and searcher of the hearts of the children of men; he is the possessor or master of their most secret thoughts, and thoroughly knows them; see Psalms 7:9; they are also the seat of the affections, which are naturally sinful and inordinate, and set upon carnal and earthly things; but the Lord possesses and engrosses the affections of his people in the best sense, Psalms 73:25; moreover the reins are the seat of lust, the bed in which it is conceived and brought forth, and God knows the first motions of it there; and that the imagination of the thought of man's heart is evil continually, Genesis 6:5;
thou hast covered me in my mother's womb; with the secundine, or afterbirth, in which he carefully wrapped him, a proof of his knowledge of him, and care for him in the womb; or with skin and flesh he covered his bones with as they grew there; see Job 10:11; or the sense is, he protected and defended him in his embryo state, and when ripe for birth took him out from thence, and held him up ever since, Psalms 22:9; he had his eye on him when no other eye could see him, not even his mother that bare him, and before ever he himself saw light. The Targum is,
"thou hast founded me in my mother's womb.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thou hast possessed my reins - The word here rendered âpossessedâ means properly to âset upright,â to âerect,â 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 translation, that God âpossessedâ or âownedâ them but that he had âmadeâ them, and that, âtherefore,â he knew all about them. The word âreinsâ means literally the âkidneys;â and then, it comes to denote the inward part, the mind, the soul, the seat of the desires, affections, and passions. Jeremiah 11:20. See Psalms 7:9, note; Job 19:27, note. The meaning here is, that God had made him; that the innermost recesses of his being had been constituted as they are by God; and that, âtherefore,â he must be able to see all that there is in the very depths of the soul, however it may be hidden from the eye of man.
Thou hast covered me in my motherâs womb - The word here rendered âcoverâ means properly to interweave; to weave; to knit together, and the literal translation would be, âThou hast âwovenâ me in my motherâs womb, meaning that God had put his parts together, as one who weaves cloth, or who makes a basket. So it is rendered by DeWette and by Gesenius (Lexicon). The original word has, however, also the idea of protecting, as in a booth or hut, woven or knit together - to wit, of boughs and branches. The former signification best suits the connection; and then the sense would be, that as God had made him - as he had formed his members, and united them in a bodily frame and form before he was born - he must be able to understand all his thoughts and feelings. As he was not concealed from God before he saw the light, so he could not be anywhere.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 139:13. Thou hast possessed my reins — As the Hebrews believed that the reins were the first part of the human fetus that is formed, it may here mean, thou hast laid the foundation of my being.
