11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”(A)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.(B)

13 For it was you who created my inward parts;[a]
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(C)
14 I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.[b][c]
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.(D)
15 My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.(E)
16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 139:13 Lit my kidneys
  2. 139:14 DSS, some LXX mss, Syr, Jer read because you are remarkable and wonderful
  3. 139:14 Hb obscure

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