Psalms 139:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 63:9 : 9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
  • Ps 139:13 : 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
  • Eccl 11:5 : 5 As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
  • Job 10:8-9 : 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction. 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.
  • Exod 11:5 : 5 And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.
  • Eph 4:9 : 9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:12-14
    3 verses
    87%

    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.

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

    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.

  • Ps 139:16-17
    2 verses
    87%

    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!

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

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

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

    9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

  • Ps 51:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 71:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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 139:1-9
    9 verses
    74%

    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;

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

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 8:23-27
    5 verses
    74%

    23 From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

    24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

    25 Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

    26 When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

    27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

  • 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • 4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

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

  • 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,

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

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

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

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

  • 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.

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    3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

  • 25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • 5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

  • 10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • Job 3:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

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

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

  • 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

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