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Psalm 139:15

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

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.
16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
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Notice

Being “woven together” in secret suggests a beginning beyond your own memory, yet every part of that hidden formation lay open to God.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Ecclesiastes 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.Both passages connect bodily formation with God’s work, while Ecclesiastes stresses how much of that work remains beyond human understanding.
Psalm 139:13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.Knitting and weaving describe God’s work of formation, with verse 13 naming the mother’s womb as its setting.
Job 10:8–11“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.Both speakers acknowledge being fashioned by God, though Job speaks from anguish and accuses those same hands of destroying him.
Psalm 63:9But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.Both use language about earth’s depths, though Psalm 139 describes hidden formation and Psalm 63 speaks of enemies facing destruction.
Ephesians 4:9Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?Both use language about earth’s depths, though the psalm describes hidden formation and Ephesians speaks of descent.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read verses 13–15 and underline words about formation

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Encouragement

The surrounding lines locate this hidden making in the womb. Even there, beyond human sight, your frame was known to God as it took shape.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).