Psalms 139:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 56:8 : 8 You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
  • Mal 3:16 : 16 Then those who respected the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the LORD and honored his name.
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

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    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:17-18
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    80%

    17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!

    18If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.

  • Job 10:8
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    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • Ps 139:1-8
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    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

    2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

    3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

    4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

    5You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.

    6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

    7Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

  • Jer 1:5
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    5“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

  • Job 31:15
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    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Ps 56:8
    72%

    8You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

  • Ps 51:5-6
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    5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

    6Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

  • Isa 49:16
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    16Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

    10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

  • Job 3:16
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  • Ps 71:6
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    6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

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    16The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

  • Job 10:11
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    11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

  • Ps 139:10
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    10even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

  • Jer 16:17
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    17For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

  • Job 19:26-27
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    8You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

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    25before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,

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  • Ezek 16:5
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    5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.

  • Jer 12:3
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    3But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

  • Job 10:18
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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Jer 20:17
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    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

  • Job 14:5
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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Heb 1:10
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    10And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

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    3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

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    30Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.

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    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

  • Job 10:13
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    13“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

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    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

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    27And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

  • Ps 119:168
    68%

    168I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.