But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
Parallel translations
- WEB But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
- BSB Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- 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 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
- Isa 49:1–2Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
- Ps 71:17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
- Ps 139:15–16My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
- Matt 2:13–15And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Isa 7:14–15Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Rev 12:4–5And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
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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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