12 (A)even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you (B)formed my inward parts;
    you (C)knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
(D)Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
15 (E)My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in (F)the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your (G)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your (H)thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 (I)If I would count them, they are more than (J)the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:14 Or for I am fearfully set apart

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    (A)Try me and know my thoughts![a]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and (B)lead me in (C)the way everlasting![b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:23 Or cares
  2. Psalm 139:24 Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)

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