Psalm 139:16 {138:16}
Good News Translation
you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.

New Revised Standard Version
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

Contemporary English Version
but with your own eyes you saw my body being formed. Even before I was born, you had written in your book everything about me.

New American Bible
Your eyes saw me unformed; in your book all are written down; my days were shaped, before one came to be.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

in thy book

Psalm 56:8 I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

all my members.

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
15My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth. 16Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.17But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.…
Cross References
Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 14:5
The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

Psalm 56:8
I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Psalm 119:73
Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

Psalm 139:15
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