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Psalm 139:13
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
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“You knit me together” traces your beginnings to God’s work in the womb, making even the hidden start of your life a matter of worship.
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Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Both passages name God as the one who forms a person in the womb; Jeremiah also receives a prophet’s commission.
Psalm 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.Both prayers address God as the maker who formed the speaker, with Psalm 119 asking that same maker for understanding.
Isaiah 44:2This is what the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have …Both texts name God as the one who forms life in the womb; Isaiah addresses Jacob with a promise of help.
Job 31:15Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?Both passages attribute formation in the womb to God, and Job acknowledges that another person shares the same maker.
Job 10:9–12Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?Both speakers address God as the one who fashioned them, though Job’s appeal includes fear of returning to dust.
Psalm 22:9–10But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.Both prayers trace God’s involvement in life to its beginnings, describing formation in the womb and being brought out of it.
Psalm 71:6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.Both speakers acknowledge God’s work at their beginnings, with Psalm 71 expressing reliance and praise from the womb onward.
Isaiah 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.Both passages describe God’s involvement from the womb, using the language of formation in the psalm and carrying in Isaiah.
Psalm 139:15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.Knitting and weaving describe God’s work in the speaker’s formation, which took place in secret without being hidden from God.
Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power …Both passages speak of God’s creative work, focusing on human formation in the psalm and creation’s witness to God’s power in Romans.
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