Psalms 139:13

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

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Psalms 139:13 in Other Translations

KJV

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

ESV

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

NLT

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

MSG

13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.

CSB

13 For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb.

Psalms 139:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 139:13

For thou hast possessed my reins
His thoughts and counsels, the reins being the seat of instruction and counsel; hence God is called the trier of the reins, and searcher of the hearts of the children of men; he is the possessor or master of their most secret thoughts, and thoroughly knows them; see ( Psalms 7:9 ) ( 16:7 ) ; they are also the seat of the affections, which are naturally sinful and inordinate, and set upon carnal and earthly things; but the Lord possesses and engrosses the affections of his people in the best sense, ( Psalms 73:25 ) ; moreover the reins are the seat of lust, the bed in which it is conceived and brought forth, and God knows the first motions of it there; and that the imagination of the thought of man's heart is evil continually, ( Genesis 6:5 ) ;

thou hast covered me in my mother's womb;
with the secundine, or afterbirth, in which he carefully wrapped him, a proof of his knowledge of him, and care for him in the womb; or with skin and flesh he covered his bones with as they grew there; see ( Job 10:11 ) ; or the sense is, he protected and defended him in his embryo state, and when ripe for birth took him out from thence, and held him up ever since, ( Psalms 22:9 ) ( 71:6 ) ; he had his eye on him when no other eye could see him, not even his mother that bare him, and before ever he himself saw light. The Targum is,

``thou hast founded me in my mother's womb.''

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Psalms 139:13 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.

Cross References 3

1. Psalms 119:73
2. S Job 10:11
3. Isaiah 44:2,24; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 49:5; Jeremiah 1:5