Psalms 139:16

American Standard Version (1901)

Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 56:8 : 8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
  • Mal 3:16 : 16 Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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  • Ps 139:12-15
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    12 Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

    13 For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

    14 I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

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

  • Ps 139:17-18
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    80%

    17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

    18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.

  • 8 Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

  • Ps 139:1-8
    8 verses
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    1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me] .

    2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

    5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

    6 [ Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

    7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

    8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

  • 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

  • 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

  • 8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

  • Ps 51:5-6
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    72%

    5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

    6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

  • 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

    10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

  • 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.

  • 73 YODH. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

  • 16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

  • 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

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    3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

  • 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.

  • 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

  • 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

  • Job 19:26-27
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    26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

    27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

  • 8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

  • Prov 8:25-26
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    25 Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

    26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

  • 5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

  • 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • 17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

  • 5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

  • 30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

  • 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 13 Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee:

  • 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

  • 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

  • 168 I have observed thy precepts and thy testimonies; For all my ways are before thee.