For thou: Job 10:9-2 Kings : covered me: Psalms 22:9, Psalms 22:10, Psalms 71:6, Job 31:15, Isaiah 44:2, Isaiah 46:3, Jeremiah 1:5 Reciprocal: Job 3:11 - when I came Psalms 100:3 - it is he Psalms 139:15 - when I Isaiah 44:24 - and he Romans 1:20 - from the 1 Corinthians 12:17 - General read more
for I am fearfully: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27 marvellous: Psalms 92:4, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 104:24, Psalms 111:2, Job 5:9, Revelation 15:3 right well: Heb. greatly Reciprocal: Genesis 2:7 - formed man Job 10:10 - poured Job 31:15 - did not one fashion us in the womb Psalms 98:1 - for he Psalms 119:73 - Thy hands Ecclesiastes 11:5 - nor Mark 7:37 - were Luke 9:43 - amazed read more
substance: or, strength, or body when I: Psalms 139:13, Job 10:9-1 Kings :, Exodus 11:5 in the lowest: Psalms 63:9, Ephesians 4:9 Reciprocal: Genesis 2:7 - formed man Psalms 22:9 - that took Psalms 71:6 - thou art Ecclesiastes 11:5 - nor Ephesians 4:16 - fitly Colossians 2:19 - by read more
13, 14. From God in universal space and material nature, the psalmist returns to contemplate God, in his own mysterious origin and personal being. The creative power and wisdom of God, operating according to his absolute knowledge of the formative atoms and occult laws of embryonic life, are a further mystery, and a ground of praise and thanksgiving. Possessed The Hebrew will bear the meaning “formed;” it may also indicate possession and control. Reins In Hebrew psychology, the soul or... read more
15, 16. Substance Literally, My strength; referring to the bones, or osseous system, as the solid basis of muscular strength. Their growth is a mystery. Ecclesiastes 11:5. Made in secret “Made” is the same word here as in Genesis 1:26, and the mediate making here is no less a mystery and the work of God than the immediate creative making there. Curiously wrought Literally, embroidered. Here is the variegated network of the human frame referred to. Lowest parts of the earth A... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 139:15
Psa 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Ver. 15. My substance was not hid from thee ] Ossatio mea, id est, ossium et artuum compages, the structure of my bones and joints. But was not he a wise man (and yet wise enough otherwise) who, being asked upon his death bed what his soul was? seriously answered, that he knew not well; but he thought it was a great bone in the middle of his body? (Pemble’s... read more