Psalm 139:13-16
From Reconciling understandings of Scripture and Science
- 13 It was You who created my conscience;[a]
- You fashioned me in my mother’s womb.
- 14 I praise You,
- for I am awesomely, wondrously made;
- Your work is wonderful;
- I know it very well.
- 15 My frame was not concealed from You
- when I was shaped in a hidden place,
- knit together in the recesses of the earth.
- 16 Your eyes saw my unformed limbs;
- they were all recorded in Your book;
- in due time they were formed,
- to the very last one of them.
- [a] Lit. “kidneys.”
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.
- made v 14&15 — עָשָׂה asah
- formed v 15 — יָצַר (yatzar) - the potter's word.
See also Theistic Embryology.
