Psalms 139:16
14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- KJV
- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
- WEB
- Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
- ASV
- Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.
- DARBY
- Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
- BLB
- Your eyes saw my unformed body, and in Your book all of them were written—the days fashioned for me, and not one [was] yet among them!
- ÅB
- Da jeg bare var foster, så dine øyne meg, og i din bok ble de alle oppskrevet de dager som ble fastsatt da ikke en av dem var kommet.
- OTB
- Dine øyne så meg da jeg var et foster;
Og i Din bok var de alle skrevet
De dager som var fastsatt for meg,
Da ingen av dem ennå var kommet. - B1930
- Da jeg bare var foster, så dine øine mig, og i din bok blev de alle opskrevet de dager som blev fastsatt da ikke en av dem var kommet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 56:8
You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Read in contextMalachi 3:16
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
Read in contextRevelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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