Psalms 139:15 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 139:15

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

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ASV

My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

KJV

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

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Commentary

3 voices

Hippolytus of Rome

Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On the Words in Psalm CXXXIX. 15 (235)

It is said also by those who treat of the nature and generation of animals, that the change of the blood into bone is something invisible and intangible, although in the case of other parts, I mean the flesh and nerves, the mode of their formation may be seen. And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, saying, As you know not the bones in the womb of her that is with child, so you shall not know the works of God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But it was God himself that thus covered us, and therefore he can, when he pleases, discover us; when he hid us from all the world he did not intend to hide us from himself. Concerning the formation of man, of each of us, 1. The glory of it is here given to God, entirely to him; for it is he that has made us and not we ourselves.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 7 (1885)

My substance was not hid from thee. The substantial part of my being was before thine all seeing eye; the bones which make my frame were put together by thine hand. The essential materials of my being before they were arranged were all within the range of thine eye. I was hidden from all human knowledge, but not from thee: thou hast ever been intimately acquainted with me. When I was made in secret. Most chastely and beautifully is here described the formation of our being before the time of our birth.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
נִכְחַ֥ד	nikh.Chad	it was hidden	H3582 →
עָצְמִ֗י	'a.tze.Mi	bone[s] my	H6108 →
מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָּ	mi.Me.ka	from you	H4480 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
עֻשֵּׂ֥יתִי	'u.Sei.ti	I was made	H6213 →
בַסֵּ֑תֶר	va.Se.ter	in the secret place	H5643 →
רֻ֝קַּ֗מְתִּי	ru.Kam.ti	I was formed	H7551 →
בְּֽתַחְתִּיּ֥וֹת	be.tach.ti.Yot	in [the] lower parts of	H8482 →
אָֽרֶץ׃	'A.retz	[the] earth	H776 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Psalms 139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
leads to
- 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.”
- Psalms 119:73
  Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
- Isaiah 44:2
  This 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.
- Job 31:15
  Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
- Job 10:9–12
  Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Through
Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
leads to
- John 3:8
  The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
- Psalms 92:5
  How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Through
Ephesians 4:9
What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?
leads to
- John 3:13
  No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

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Where the connections lead

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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