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Psalm 139:15a

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139:15my bones were not hidden from you,

when23 I was made in secret

and sewed together in the depths of the earth.24

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Footnotes

  1. 23 The Hebrew term אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “which”) should probably be emended to כֲּאַשֶׁר (ka’asher, “when”). The kaf (ך) may have been lost by haplography (note the kaf at the end of the preceding form).
  2. 24 The phrase depths of the earth may be metaphorical (euphemistic) or it may reflect a prescientific belief about the origins of the embryo deep beneath the earth’s surface (see H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 96–97). Job 1:21 also closely associates the mother’s womb with the earth.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My bones were not hidden from you

when I was made in secret,

when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

NLTNew Living Translation

You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was created secretly,

and intricately woven

in the depths of the earth.

KJV 1900King 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.