Psalms 139:13-16

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalms 139:13-16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 139:13-16 In-Context

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 119:73
• 2. S Job 10:11
• 3. Isaiah 44:2,24; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 49:5; Jeremiah 1:5
• 4. Psalms 119:164; Psalms 145:10
• 5. S Job 40:19; Psalms 40:5
• 6. Ecclesiastes 11:5
• 7. S Job 10:11
• 8. S Psalms 63:9
• 9. S Job 33:29; S Psalms 90:12