Psalms Chapter 139 verse 15 Holy Bible
My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, `And' curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
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My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
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My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.
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My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
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Psalms 139 : 15 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. The formation of the embryo in the womb seems to be intended. This remains as much a mystery as ever, notwithstanding all the pryings of modern science. And curiously wrought; literally, and embroidered, or woven with threads of divers colors (comp. ver. 13b; and note that modern science speaks of the various "tissues" of the human frame, and calls a portion of medical knowledge "histology"). In the lowest parts of the earth. This is scarcely to be taken literally. It is perhaps only a variant for the "secretly" of the preceding clause.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Substance.--Aquila "bones," LXX. and Vulg. "bone," Symmachus "strength." Perhaps, generally, body. But the common Hebrew word for bone differs only in the pointing.In secret.--Comp. 'sch. Eum. 665.Curiously wrought.--From the use of the verb in Exodus 26:36; Exodus 27:16, it plainly refers to some kind of tapestry work, but whether of the nature of weaving or embroidery is matter of controversy. The English sufficiently suggests the figure.In the lowest parts of the earth.--This figurative allusion to the womb is intended no doubt to heighten the feeling of mystery attaching to birth. There may also be a covert allusion to the creation from dust as Ecclesiasticus 40:1, "From the day that they go out of their mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things." This allusion falls in with the view which meets us in other parts of the Old Testament, that the creation of Adam is repeated at every birth (Job 33:6, and see above, Psalm 139:13). . . .
