wonderfully made

¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

¹³For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother. ¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well. ¹⁵My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them.

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you went forth from the womb, I sanctified you. And I made you a prophet to the nations.”

¹³For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother. ¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

¹⁰For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

⁴The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

⁸And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me. ²You have known my sitting down and my rising up again. ³You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated. ⁴And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue. ⁵Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me. ⁶Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it.

⁴And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ⁵“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you went forth from the womb, I sanctified you. And I made you a prophet to the nations.”

¹⁶You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.

¹See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him. ²Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

¹Pay attention, you islands, and listen closely, you far away peoples. The Lord has called me from the womb; from the womb of my mother, he has been mindful of my name.

¹⁵Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb?

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.