KJV King James Version
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
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Psalm 139:13
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
WEB World English Bible
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
ASV American Standard Version
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Thou—Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother’s belly.
Surrounding context — Psalm 139
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 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.
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Jeremiah 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.Psalm 119:73JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.Isaiah 44:2Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [which] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.Job 31:15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?Job 10:9-12Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?Psalm 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise [shall be] continually of thee.Psalm 22:9-10But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts.Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
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