Psalm 139:15 “My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was…”

Psalm 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.

Darby Translation

My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.

Bible in Basic English

My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

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Cross references

“when I”

Psalm 139:13 Job 10:9–11 Exodus 11:5

Psalm 139:13 · BSB

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

Job 10:9–11 · BSB

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Exodus 11:5 · BSB

and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

“in the lowest”

Psalm 63:9 Ephesians 4:9

Psalm 63:9 · BSB

But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

Ephesians 4:9 · BSB

What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?

Also

Ecclesiastes 11:5 Job 10:8–11

Ecclesiastes 11:5 · BSB

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.

Job 10:8–11 · BSB

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

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