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Psalm 139:16
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 139:16
New Catholic Bible
16 [a]The sum total of my days
were all recorded in your book.[b]
My life was fashioned
before it had come into being.
Footnotes
- Psalm 139:16 The text of these verses is obscure in several places.
- Psalm 139:16 [They] were all recorded in your book: an image familiar to the Prophets (see Neh 13:14; Dan 7:10; Mal 3:16) as well as the psalmists (see Pss 69:29; 109:13), which was reprised in the Dies Irae (the Sequence formerly used at Masses for the Dead): Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur: “Lo, the book exactly worded, in which all has been recorded.” See note on Ps 56:9.
