For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
I know that the Lord will accomplish justice for the needy and vindication for the poor.
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?