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Wonderfully Made

The soul praises God for being fearfully and wonderfully made, acknowledging His intimate knowledge of every part.

Psalm. 139.1 13. I praise You, for I am wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it full well.✦23 14. My body was not hidden from You, which You made in secret, and my substance in the depths of the earth.✦4 15. Your eyes saw my unformed body, and in Your book all my members were written.56 mine, when none of them existed yet.7

Formed by God's Hands

The believer reflects on how God shaped every part of the body and granted life and mercy.

Job. X.8 8.✦ Your hands formed me completely, all around.✦9 10.✦ Like milk You poured me out,✦10 And You curdled me like cheese. 11. You clothed me with skin and flesh; You knit me together with bones and sinews. 12.✦ You granted me life and mercy, and Your visitation has guarded my spirit.11

Blessing for Understanding

The psalmist blesses the Lord for granting understanding.

Psalm 16 7. I will bless the Lord, who has given me12 understanding.✦

Unworthy of Mercy

Jacob confesses his unworthiness of God's mercies and truth, recalling his humble beginnings and God's abundant provision.

Genesis 32 10✦ Lord, I am not equal to all Your mercies and to Your truth, which You have fulfilled for Your servant.13 With my staff I crossed this Jordan, but now I return with two companies.

Praise for Deliverance

All nations are called to bless the Lord, who preserves the soul and keeps the feet from stumbling.

Psalm 66. 8. — Bless our Lord, you nations, 9. and make the voice of His praise heard—He who set my soul toward life and did not let my feet stumble.14

Joy in God's Work

The believer rejoices in the Lord's work and the works of His hands.

Psalm 92:4.15 For You have made me glad, Lord, by Your work; in the works of Your hands I will—1617 I will rejoice.✦18

Read the original Latin

Psal. exxxix. 13. Confiteor Tibi, quia admirabiliter creatus sum, mirabila opera 'Tua, et anima mea cognoscit nimis.

14. Non est oecultatum os meum a "Te, quod fecisti in occulto, et substantia mea in inferioribus terrarum.

15. Imperfectum meum viderunt oeuli Tui, et in libro 'Tuo seripta sunt omnia membra

mea, cum nondum esset ullum ex eis.

Job. x. 8. Manus Tux plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu. 10. Sieut lac mulsisti me,

Et sicut caseum me coagulasti. 11. Pelle et carnibus vestisti me, ossibus et nervis compegisti me ; 12. Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio 'l'ua custodivit spiritum meum.

Psal. xvi. 7. | Benedieam Domino, qui tribuit mihi

intellectum.

Gen. xxxii. 10. Domine, impar sum cunctis miserationibus Tuis, et veritate Tua, quam explevisti servo 'Tuo. In baculo transivi Jordanum istum, at nunc cum duabus turmis regredior.

Psal. lxvi. 8. — Benedicite, gentes, Dominum nostrum,

9. et auditam facite vocem laudis Ejus, qui posuit animam meam ad vitam, et non dedit ad commotionem pedes meos.

xcii 4. Quia delectasti me, Domine, in factura Tua, in operibus manuum 'Tuarum ex-

sultabo.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.139.14 — I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, and my soul knows it very well.
  2. ↩Ps.139.15 — My bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
  3. ↩Job.10.8 — Your hands shaped me and made me, all around, and yet you swallow me down.
  4. ↩Job.10.8 — Your hands shaped me and made me, all around, and yet you swallow me down.
  5. ↩Job.10.10 — Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
  6. ↩Job.10.10 — Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
  7. ↩Job.10.11 — You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and sinews.
  8. ↩Ps.17.7 — “Show the wonder of your steadfast love, O Savior of those who take refuge from those who rise up against your right hand.”
  9. ↩Gen.32.10 — And Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good with you.'"
  10. ↩Ps.93.4 — Mightier than the voice of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea—mightier is the LORD on high.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads 'exxxix.'; treated as a corrupt/OCR form of Roman numeral cxxxix (139), matching the following Psalm 139/Vulgate 138 text.
  2. 2 ↩Source 'mirabila' read as intended 'mirabilia' (wonderful things/works).
  3. 3 ↩Confiteor Tibi in psalm diction is praise/thanks more than confession of sin; rendered 'I praise You' to keep the psalmic force.
  4. 4 ↩Source reads oecultatum; translated as the intended occultatum (‘hidden’), the standard Vulgate reading of this verse.
  5. 5 ↩Normalized OCR/print errors: oeuli→oculi; seripta→scripta; stray quote before Tuo ignored. Sense follows the standard psalmic reading.
  6. 6 ↩Sentence is cut mid-phrase at membra; neighboring next section continues mea, cum nondum esset ullum ex eis. Rendered only this section’s text; membra treated as ‘my members’ from the split across sections.
  7. 7 ↩Continuation of the previous clause (membra … mea): ‘all my members … mine, when not yet any of them existed.’
  8. 8 ↩Printed 'x.' is treated as the Roman chapter numeral X (Job 10), matching the following Job 10 verses.
  9. 9 ↩Source 'Tux' is read as 'Tuae' (your); OCR/print corruption.
  10. 10 ↩Source 'Sieut' is read as 'Sicut' (as/like); OCR/print corruption.
  11. 11 ↩Source reading visitatio 'l'ua is treated as visitatio tua (your visitation), the expected Job 10:12 wording; likely OCR/print corruption of tua.
  12. 12 ↩Source reads Benedieam; translated as Benedicam (I will bless). Leading pipe | treated as layout noise.
  13. 13 ↩Source has a stray apostrophe in “servo 'Tuo”; translated as the intended “servo Tuo” (Your servant).
  14. 14 ↩ad commotionem: rendered as stumbling (unsettling/shaking of the feet); the standard Vulgate often has non dedit commoveri pedes meos, a close parallel sense.
  15. 15 ↩Source citation 'xcii 4.' rendered as Psalm 92:4; Vulgate/Hebrew psalm numbering may differ by one in some traditions.
  16. 16 ↩Latin ends mid-word at 'ex-' (line break). Neighboring next section begins 'sultabo.', so the intended full form is exsultabo ('I will rejoice'). Translation stops at the break rather than silently completing the word in this section.
  17. 17 ↩Stray apostrophe before 'Tuarum' in source ('manuum 'Tuarum) treated as typographic noise.
  18. 18 ↩Printed line-break fragment: previous section ends with 'ex-' and this completes Vulgate 'exsultabo' (Ps 92:4 / xcii 4): 'I will rejoice/exult' in the works of your hands.

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