Psalms 139:13

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“For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

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BSBPD

“For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 139:13 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
  2. Job 10:11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
  3. Job 31:15Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
  4. Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
  5. Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
  6. Psalms 95:6O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
  7. Psalms 119:73Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
  8. Isaiah 44:2This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
  9. Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
  10. Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
  11. 1 Corinthians 12:17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

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