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13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(A)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(B)
15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(C)
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
    all the days that were formed for me,
    when none of them as yet existed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.(A)

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