⁶ From birth^(A) I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.^(B)
    I will ever praise^(C) you.

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb;^(A)
    you made me trust^(B) in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰ From birth^(C) I was cast on you;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb^(A) I knew^[a](B) you,
    before you were born^(C) I set you apart;^(D)
    I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.^(E)”

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(A) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together^(B) in the depths of the earth.^(C)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(D) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.