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Psalms 139:13-16
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Psalms 139:13-16
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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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.
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Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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Psalms 139:13-16 Meaning and Commentary
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John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Psalms 139:13-16 In-Context
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
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even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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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.
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Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
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Psalms 119:73
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Job 10:11
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Isaiah 44:2,24
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Isaiah 46:3
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Isaiah 49:5
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Jeremiah 1:5
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Psalms 119:164
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Psalms 145:10
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Job 40:19
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Psalms 40:5
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Ecclesiastes 11:5
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Job 10:11
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Psalms 63:9
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Job 33:29
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Psalms 90:12
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