You Have Searched Me and Known Me
Psalms 139:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- KJV
- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.all…: Heb. all of themwhich…: or, what days they should be fashioned
- WEB
- Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
- ASV
- Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.
- LSV
- Your eyes saw my unformed substance, || And all of them are written on Your scroll, || The days they were formed—And not one among them.
- YLT
- Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed — And not one among them.
- DBY
- Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
- DRC138:16
- Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
- GNV
- Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.
- JPS
- Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written — even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
- LXXE138:16
- Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.
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- Written (Ketiv): וְלֹא (“and not”). Read aloud (Qere): וְל֖וֹ (“and to it”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads וְלֹ֖א; read aloud (Qere) reads וְל֖וֹ (“and to it”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- גָּלְמִ֤י ׀ רָ֘א֤וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וְעַֽל־סִפְרְךָ֮ כֻּלָּ֪ם יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ יָמִ֥ים יֻצָּ֑רוּ ולא אֶחָ֣ד בָּהֶֽם׃Read aloud as (qere): וְל֖וֹ
- LXX-Br138:16
- Ἀκατέργαστόν μου εἶδου οἱ ἀφθαλμοί σου, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ βιβλίον σου πάντες γραφήσονται· ἡμέρας πλασθήσονται καὶ οὐθεὶς ἐν αὐτοῖς.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
- Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
- Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 138:16 in some Bibles
- 139:16 in most Bibles