13  For you ^eformed my inward parts;

you ^fknitted me together in my mother’s womb.

6  Upon you I have leaned ^ofrom before my birth;

you are he who ^ptook me from my mother’s womb.

My praise is continually of you.

5  ⁱ“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

and before you were born ^jI consecrated you;

I appointed you a prophet ^kto the nations.”

9  Remember that you have made me like ^jclay;

and will you return me to the ^kdust?

10  Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

11  You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12  You have granted me life and steadfast love,

and your care has preserved my spirit.

15  Did ^pnot he who made me in the womb make him?

And did not one fashion us in the womb?

9  Yet you are he who ^ltook me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

10  On you was I cast from my birth,

and from ^mmy mother’s womb you have been my God.

73  ^lYour hands have made and fashioned me;

^mgive me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

2  Thus says the Lord who made you,

^cwho formed you from the womb and will help you:

^dFear not, O Jacob my servant,

^eJeshurun whom I have chosen.

3  “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

all the remnant of the house of Israel,

^qwho have been borne by me from before your birth,

carried from the womb;