10 Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.

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10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,
11 clothe me with skin and flesh
    and knit me together(A) with bones and sinews?

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14 I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.[a][b]
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.(A)
15 My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.(B)
16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:14 DSS, some LXX mss, Syr, Jer read because You are remarkable and wonderful
  2. Psalm 139:14 Hb obscure

14 I praise you(A) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,(B)
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made(C) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together(D) in the depths of the earth.(E)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained(F) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

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“For as heaven is higher than earth,(A)
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.

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“As the heavens are higher than the earth,(A)
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(B)

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Whatever is born of the flesh(A) is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit(B) is spirit. Do not be amazed that I told you that you[a] must be born(C) again. The wind[b] blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.(D) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:7 The pronoun is pl in Gk.
  2. John 3:8 The Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context.

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit.(A) You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[b] must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[c](B)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit
  2. John 3:7 The Greek is plural.
  3. John 3:8 The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.

A Hymn of Praise

33 Oh, the depth of the riches(A)
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!(B)
How unsearchable His judgments(C)
and untraceable His ways!

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Doxology

33 Oh, the depth of the riches(A) of the wisdom and[a] knowledge of God!(B)
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the