Psalms 139:13
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Psalms 139:13 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Psalms 139:13 is a verse from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Psalms 139:13 — KJV
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.”
— Psalms 139:13 (KJV)
Psalms 139:13 in Context — About the Book of Psalms
Psalms is the Bible's prayer book — 150 songs covering every emotion a praying person will ever feel: praise, panic, gratitude, grief, fury, and quiet trust. For three thousand years believers have borrowed these words when their own run out. If you can feel it, there is a psalm for it.
Cross-References for Psalms 139:13
“And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?”
Shares key themes with Psalms 139:13: hast, mother
“And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 139:13: covered, mother
“Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 139:13: mother, womb
“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;”
Shares key themes with Psalms 139:13: hast, mother
“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:”
Shares key themes with Psalms 139:13: hast, mother
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