I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Parallel translations
- KJV By 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.
- BSB I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
- NKJV By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You.
- NASB I have leaned on You since my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; My praise is continually of You.
- NLT Yes, you have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you!
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Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
- Ps 22:9–10But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
- Ps 139:15–16My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
- Isa 49:1Listen, 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.
- Isa 46:3–4“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
- Isa 49:5Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
- Ps 34:1By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
- Ps 145:1–2A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
- Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
- Jer 3:4Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’
- Luke 1:31–32Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’
- Ps 71:14But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
- Eph 5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
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