Salmi 139:16

16 I tuoi occhi videro la massa informe del mio corpo; E tutte queste cose erano scritte nel tuo libro, Nel tempo che si formavano, Quando niuna di esse era ancora.

Salmi 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.''

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Salmi 139:16 In-Context

14 Io ti celebrerò; perciocchè io sono stato maravigliosamente formato In maniere stupende; Le tue opere son maravigliose, E l’anima mia lo sa molto bene.

15 La fabbrica delle mie ossa non ti fu celata, Quando io fui fatto in occulto, E lavorato nelle basse parti delle terra.

16 I tuoi occhi videro la massa informe del mio corpo; E tutte queste cose erano scritte nel tuo libro, Nel tempo che si formavano, Quando niuna di esse era ancora.

17 Oh! quanto mi sono, o Dio, preziosi i tuoi pensamenti! Quanto son grandi le somme di essi!

18 Se io li voglio annoverare, sono in maggior numero che la rena; Quando io mi risveglio, io sono ancora teco.