Psalms 139:15 · KJV
“My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, {and} curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. {substance: or, strength, or, body}”
— Psalms 139:15
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully {and} wonderfully made: marvellous {are} thy works; and {that} my soul knoweth right well. {right...: Heb. greatly}
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. {all...: Heb. all of them} {which...: or, what days they should be fashioned}
Psalms 139 — Context
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully {and} wonderfully made: marvellous {are} thy works; and {that} my soul knoweth right well. {right...: Heb. greatly}
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, {and} curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. {substance: or, strength, or, body}
16Thine 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. {all...: Heb. all of them} {which...: or, what days they should be fashioned}
17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what {is} the way of the spirit, {nor} how the bones {do grow} in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Psalms 139:13
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Job 10:8-11
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. {have...: Heb. took pains about me}
Psalms 63:9
But those {that} seek my soul, to destroy {it}, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Ephesians 4:9
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that {is} behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.