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Psalm 139:13

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139:13Certainly18 you made my mind and heart;19

you wove me together20 in my mother’s womb.

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Psalm 139:13: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Footnotes

  1. 18 Or “for.”
  2. 19 Heb “my kidneys.” The kidneys were sometimes viewed as the seat of one’s emotions and moral character (cf. Pss 7:9; 26:2). A number of translations, recognizing that “kidneys” does not communicate this idea to the modern reader, have generalized the concept: “inmost being” (, ); “inward parts” (, ); “the delicate, inner parts of my body” (). In the last instance, the focus is almost entirely on the physical body rather than the emotions or moral character. The present translation, by using a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms), links the concepts of emotion (heart) and moral character (mind).
  3. 20 The Hebrew verb סָכַךְ (sakhakh, “to weave together”) is an alternate form of שָׂכַךְ (sakhakh, “to weave”) used in Job 10:11.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For it was you who created my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Indeed you created my inward parts;

you wove me in my mother’s womb.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For thou hast possessed my reins:

Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

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