Psalm 139:16 {138:16}
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Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

in thy book

Psalm 56:8 I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

all my members.

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
15My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth. 16Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.17But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.…
Cross References
Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 14:5
The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

Psalm 56:8
I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Psalm 119:73
Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

Lexicon
Your eyes
עֵינֶ֗יךָ (‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

saw
רָ֘א֤וּ (rā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

my unformed body;
גָּלְמִ֤י ׀ (gā·lə·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1564: A wrapped

all
כֻּלָּ֪ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

my days
יָמִ֥ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

were written
יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ (yik·kā·ṯê·ḇū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3789: To grave, to write

in
וְעַֽל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Your book
סִפְרְךָ֮ (sip̄·rə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5612: A missive, document, writing, book

and ordained for me
יֻצָּ֑רוּ (yuṣ·ṣā·rū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3335: To mould into a, form, as a, potter, to determine

before one of them came to be.
אֶחָ֣ד (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first


Additional Translations
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me , When as yet there was none of them.

Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.

Thine eyes did see mine unperfect substance, and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.
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