Psalms 139:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 1:5 : 5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
  • Ps 119:73 : 73 <JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
  • Isa 44:2 : 2 The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.
  • Job 10:9-9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? 10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese? 11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. 12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
  • Job 31:15 : 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
  • Ps 22:9-9 : 9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts. 10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
  • Ps 71:6 : 6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:14-17
    4 verses
    86%

    14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

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

    16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

    17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

  • Ps 71:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

    6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

    7 I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • Ps 139:1-12
    12 verses
    79%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

    2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

    3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

    5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

    7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

    9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

    10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 10:11-13
    3 verses
    76%

    11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

    12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.

    13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

  • Ps 51:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

    5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

    6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

  • 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

  • 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

  • 5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

  • 18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • 73 <JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.

  • Isa 49:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

    2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;

  • 8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

  • 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

  • 18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • 39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

  • 4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

  • 10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

  • 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

  • 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • 7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

  • 3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.