¶Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
- Isa 49:1–2Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
- Ps 71:17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
- Ps 139:15–16My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Matt 2:13–15Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
- Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name 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 conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Rev 12:4–5His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
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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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