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and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
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for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
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“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?
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“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
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If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
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They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
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The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
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Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
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“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
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From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
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Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.
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From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
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Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
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Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
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From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.
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Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning’s womb.
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’
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Listen, my son! Listen, son of my womb! Listen, my son, the answer to my prayers!
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Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
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As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
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This is what the Lord says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
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Jerusalem to Be Inhabited
“This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,
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The Servant of the Lord
Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.
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And now the Lord says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength—
