Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
Parallel translations
- WEB But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
- KJV But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
- NKJV But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
- NASB ¶Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.
- NLT Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
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Quick answer
The sufferer recalls that God brought him from the womb and made him trust from infancy. His relationship with God reaches back to his very beginning.
Overview
Turning again to faith, the psalmist remembers that God himself superintended his birth and instilled trust in him from earliest life. This lifelong dependence on God grounds his appeal for help. It expresses a faith nurtured by God from the start, fully embodied in the Messiah whose whole life was lived in trustful dependence on the Father.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
- Isa 49:1–2Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Ps 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Ps 139:15–16My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Matt 2:13–15When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isa 7:14–15Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Rev 12:4–5His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.
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Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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