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Psalms 139:14
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.
I will praise youbecause I have been remarkably and wondrously made.Your works are wondrous,and I know this very well.
I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was!
I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
and I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me. Everything you do is marvelous! Of this I have no doubt.
I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders — I know this very well.
I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderfully made, marueilous are thy works: and that my soule knoweth right well.
I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well.
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well.
I will thank You, for with awesome ways I am distinguished; Your works are marvelous, and my soul knows it very well.
I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.
I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
I will give thanks to You, for the greatness of the way I was made brings fear. Your works are great and my soul knows it very well.
I thank thee, in that fearfully was my being distinguished, Wonderful are thy works, and, mine own soul, is observing them intently!
(138-14) I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
I will praise thee, because of the wonders which thou hast done; marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knows right well.
I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.
I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
I wyll confesse it vnto thee, for that thy [doynges] are to be dreaded, I am made after a marueylous sort: thy workes be marueylous, and that my soule knoweth ryght well.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
I schal knouleche to thee, for thou art magnefied dreedfuli; thi werkis ben wondirful, and my soule schal knouleche ful miche.
I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.
I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;
I will give thanks to you; because of your awesome works, I am distinguished: Wonderful are your works; And my soul knows that very well.
I will praise thee: for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: wonderful [are] thy works; and [that] my soul well knoweth.
I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
My bones are not hyd from the, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneth in the earth.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Wonderful are Your works,And my soul knows it very well.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for I am fearfully: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27
marvellous: Psalms 92:4, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 104:24, Psalms 111:2, Job 5:9, Revelation 15:3
right well: Heb. greatly
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:7 - formed man Job 10:10 - poured Job 31:15 - did not one fashion us in the womb Psalms 98:1 - for he Psalms 119:73 - Thy hands Ecclesiastes 11:5 - nor Mark 7:37 - were Luke 9:43 - amazed
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made,.... the formation of man is not of himself, nor of his parents, but of God, and is very wonderful in all its parts; it has been matter of astonishment to many Heathens, as Galen and others, who have, with any carefulness, examined the structure and texture of the human body, the exact symmetry and just proportion of all its parts, their position and usefulness; holy every bone, muscle, artery, nerve and fibre, are nicely framed and placed to answer their designed end; particularly the eye and ear, the exquisite make of them for sight and sound, have filled the most diligent inquirers into nature with amazement and wonder, and are a full proof of the wisdom and knowledge of God; see
Psalms 94:9; no man has cause to reproach his parents, nor blame the Former of all things for making him thus, but on the contrary should praise the Lord, as David did, who has given him life and breath, and all things; or own and confess l, as the word may be rendered, that he is in various surprising instances a wonder of nature; see
Isaiah 45:9. R. Moses in Aben Ezra thinks David is speaking of the first father, or the first Adam; who was wonderfully made of the dust of the earth, and had a living soul breathed into him; was made after the image of God, holy and upright: but rather he speaks of Christ, the second Adam, his antitype, who as man is a creature of God's make, and was wonderfully made, even of a virgin, without the use and knowledge of man; is the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, the tabernacle which God pitched and not man; was produced by the power of the Holy Ghost, was born without sin, which no man is, and united personally to the Son of God, and is the great mystery of godliness; and his name is justly called Wonderful, Isaiah 9:6. Cocceius interprets this passage of God's separating act of David, and so of others in election; which is a wonderful setting apart of than for himself, as the word is used Psalms 4:3; it is the effect of amazing love, and to be ascribed to the sovereignty of God, and the unsearchable riches of his grace; but this seems not to be intended here, though it is a marvellous act, as all the works of God are, as follows; rather, since the word may be rendered, "I am wonderfully separated" m, it may be interpreted of his being separated in his mother's womb from the rest of the mass and matter of her blood, and formed from thence; which was done in a secret, unknown, and marvellous way and manner;
marvellous [are] thy works; of creation, providence, sustentation of all creatures, the government of the world, the redemption of mankind, the work of grace and conversion, the perseverance of the saints, and their eternal salvation;
and [that] my soul knoweth right well: having diligently sought them out, and having such a distinct knowledge of them as to be capable of talking of them, and of showing them to others, and pointing out the wonders, beauties, and excellencies of them; see Psalms 111:2; however, he well and perfectly knew, or knew so much of them that they were very wonderful and amazing: some connect the word rendered "right well", which signifies "greatly", or "exceedingly", not with his knowledge, but with the marvellous works known; and take the sense to be, that he knew them to be greatly or exceedingly wonderful; so R. Moses in Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.
l אודך "confitebor tibi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "confiteor", Tigurine version, Cocceius, Michaelis. m נפלאתי "tremendis modis separatus sum", Cocceius; so Gussetius, p. 676, 677.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will praise thee - I will not merely admire what is so great and marvelous, but I will acknowledge thee in a public manner as wise, and holy, and good: as entitled to honor, love, and gratitude.
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made - The word rendered “fearfully” means properly “fearful things;” things suited to produce fear or reverence. The word rendered “wonderfully made” means properly to distinguish; to separate. The literal translation of this - as near as can be given - would be, “I am distinguished by fearful things;” that is, by things in my creation which are suited to inspire awe. I am distinguished among thy works by things which tend to exalt my ideas of God, and to fill my soul with reverent and devout feelings. The idea is, that he was “distinguished” among the works of creation, or so “separated” from other things in his endowments as to work in the mind a sense of awe. He was made different from inanimate objects, and from the brute creation; he was “so” made, in the entire structure of his frame, as to fill the mind with wonder. The more anyone contemplates his own bodily formation, and becomes acquainted with the anatomy of the human frame, and the more he understands of his mental organization, the more he will see the force and propriety of the language used by the psalmist.
Marvellous are thy works - Fitted are they to excite wonder and admiration. The particular reference here is to his own formation; but the same remark may be made of the works of God in general.
And that my soul knoweth right well - Margin, as in Hebrew, “greatly.” I am fully convinced of it. I am deeply impressed by it. We can see clearly that the works of God are “wonderful,” even if we can understand nothing else about them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 139:14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made — The texture of the human body is the most complicated and curious that can be conceived. It is, indeed, wonderfully made; and it is withal so exquisitely nice and delicate, that the slightest accident may impair or destroy in a moment some of those parts essentially necessary to the continuance of life; therefore, we are fearfully made. And God has done so to show us our frailty, that we should walk with death, keeping life in view; and feel the necessity of depending on the all-wise and continual superintending care and providence of God.
