Shīpiān 139:16

16 Wǒ wèi chéngxíng de tǐ zhì , nǐde yǎn zǎo yǐ kànjian le . nǐ suǒ déng de rìzi , wǒ shàng wèi dù yī rì ( huò zuò wǒ beì zào de zhī tǐ shàng wèi yǒu qí yī ) , nǐ dōu xiĕ zaì nǐde cè shang le .

Shīpiān 139:16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 139:16

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect
The word F17 for "substance" signifies a bottom of yarn wound up, or any rude or unformed lump; and designs that conglomerated mass of matter separated in the womb, containing all the essentials of the human frame, but not yet distinguished or reduced into any form or order; yet, even when in this state, the eyes of the Lord see it and all its parts distinctly;

and in thy book all [my members] were written: [which] in continuance
were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them;
in the book of God's eternal mind, and designs, the plan of the human body was drawn, all the parts of it described, and their form, places, and uses fixed, even when as yet not one of them was in actual being; but in due time they are all exactly formed and fashioned according to the model of them in the mind of God; who has as perfect knowledge of them beforehand as if they were written down in a book before him, Or "in thy book are written all [of them], what days they should be fashioned"; not only each of the members of the body were put down in this book, but each of the days in which they should be formed and come into order: "when" as yet there was "none of them"; none of those days, before they took place, even before all time; the Targum is,

``in the book of thy memory all my days are written, in the day the world was created, from the beginning that all creatures were created.''


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (ymlg) "informe meum", Montanus; "glomus meam", Michaelis.

Shīpiān 139:16 In-Context

14 Wǒ yào chēngxiè nǐ , yīn wǒ shòu zào , qímiào kĕ wèi . nǐde zuòwéi qímiào , zhè shì wǒ xīn shēn zhīdào de .
15 Wǒ zaì ànzhōng shòu zào , zaì dì de shēn chù beì liánluò . nàshí , wǒde xíngtǐ bìng bù xiàng nǐ yǐncáng .
16 Wǒ wèi chéngxíng de tǐ zhì , nǐde yǎn zǎo yǐ kànjian le . nǐ suǒ déng de rìzi , wǒ shàng wèi dù yī rì ( huò zuò wǒ beì zào de zhī tǐ shàng wèi yǒu qí yī ) , nǐ dōu xiĕ zaì nǐde cè shang le .
17 Shén a , nǐde yìniàn xiàng wǒ hédĕng bǎoguì . qí shù hédĕng zhòngduō .
18 Wǒ ruò shǔ diǎn , bǐ hǎi shā gèng duō . wǒ shuì xǐng de shíhou , réng hé nǐ tóng zaì .
Public Domain