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Psalms 22:9

And to think you were midwife at my birth, setting me at my mother's breasts! When I left the womb you cradled me; since the moment of birth you've been my God. Then you moved far away and trouble moved in next door. I need a neighbor.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Psalms (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 26;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It was you who brought me out of the womb,making me secure at my mother’s breast.
Hebrew Names Version
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
King James Version
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
English Standard Version
Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
New Century Version
You had my mother give birth to me. You made me trust you while I was just a baby.
New English Translation
Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.
Amplified Bible
Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb; You made me trust when on my mother's breasts.
New American Standard Bible
Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.
World English Bible
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You are He who brought me out of the womb;You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother's breast.
Contemporary English Version
You, Lord , brought me safely through birth, and you protected me when I was a baby at my mother's breast.
Complete Jewish Bible
"He committed himself to Adonai , so let him rescue him! Let him set him free if he takes such delight in him!"
Darby Translation
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, the truth is, you are the one who brought me into this world. You made me feel safe while I was still at my mother's breasts.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou art my trust since I came out of the womb, and my hope since I was upon my mothers breasts.
Good News Translation
It was you who brought me safely through birth, and when I was a baby, you kept me safe.
Lexham English Bible
Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother's breasts.
Literal Translation
For You are He , My Taker from the womb; causing Me to trust on My mother's breasts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wobe: thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet vpon my mothers brestes.
American Standard Version
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Bible in Basic English
But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Let him commit himself unto the LORD! let Him rescue him; let Him deliver him, seeing He delighteth in him.'
King James Version (1611)
But thou art hee that tooke mee out of the wombe; thou didst make me hope, when I was vpon my mothers breasts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother’s breasts.
English Revised Version
But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou it art that drowist me out of the wombe, thou art myn hope fro the tetis of my modir;
Update Bible Version
But you are he that took me out of the womb; You made me trust [when I was] on my mother's breasts.
Webster's Bible Translation
But thou [art] he that brought me forth into life: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
New King James Version
But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.
New Living Translation
Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.
New Life Bible
But You brought me out when I was born. You made me trust when I drank my mother's milk.
New Revised Standard
Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother's breast.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-10) For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.
Revised Standard Version
Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.
Young's Literal Translation
For thou [art] He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.

Contextual Overview

1A David Psalm God, God... my God! Why did you dump me miles from nowhere? Doubled up with pain, I call to God all the day long. No answer. Nothing. I keep at it all night, tossing and turning. 3And you! Are you indifferent, above it all, leaning back on the cushions of Israel's praise? We know you were there for our parents: they cried for your help and you gave it; they trusted and lived a good life. 6And here I am, a nothing—an earthworm, something to step on, to squash. Everyone pokes fun at me; they make faces at me, they shake their heads: "Let's see how God handles this one; since God likes him so much, let him help him!" 9And to think you were midwife at my birth, setting me at my mother's breasts! When I left the womb you cradled me; since the moment of birth you've been my God. Then you moved far away and trouble moved in next door. I need a neighbor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that took: Psalms 71:6, Psalms 139:15, Psalms 139:16, Isaiah 49:1, Isaiah 49:2

thou didst: Psalms 71:17, Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 7:15, Isaiah 9:6

make me hope: or, keep me in safety, Matthew 2:13-15, Revelation 12:4, Revelation 12:5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:23 - son suck Job 3:11 - when I came Psalms 71:5 - my trust Psalms 139:13 - covered me Ecclesiastes 12:1 - Remember Isaiah 46:3 - borne Matthew 27:22 - What Luke 1:15 - even Luke 2:40 - the child

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.
Genesis 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
Genesis 22:1
After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening."
Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you."
Genesis 22:7
Isaac said to Abraham his father, "Father?" "Yes, my son." "We have flint and wood, but where's the sheep for the burnt offering?"
Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together.
Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young servants. They got things together and returned to Beersheba. Abraham settled down in Beersheba.
Mark 15:1
At dawn's first light, the high priests, with the religious leaders and scholars, arranged a conference with the entire Jewish Council. After tying Jesus securely, they took him out and presented him to Pilate.
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse. And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham's blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God's life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing—just the way Abraham received it.
James 2:21
Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It's that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God's friend." Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb,.... The Papists affirm, that there was something miraculous in the manner of Christ's coming into the world, as well as in his conception; that his conception of a virgin was miraculous is certain, being entirely owing to the wonderful and mysterious overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, and which was necessary to preserve his human nature from the contagion of sin, common to all that descend from Adam by ordinary generation; that so that individual of human nature might be proper to be united to the Son of God, and that it might be a fit sacrifice for the sins of men; but otherwise in all other things, sin only excepted, he was made like unto us; and it is a clear case, that his mother bore him the usual time, and went with him her full time of nine months, as women commonly do; see Luke 1:56; and it is as evident that he was born and brought forth in the same manner other infants are, seeing he was presented, to the Lord in the temple, and the offering was brought for him according to the law respecting the male that opens the womb, Luke 2:22; and the phrase that is here used is expressive of the common providence of God which attends such an event, every man being as it were midwifed into the world by God himself; see Job 10:18; though there was, no doubt, a peculiar providence which attended the birth of our Lord, and makes this expression more peculiarly applicable to him; since his mother Mary, when her full time was come, was at a distance from the place of her residence, was in an inn, and in a stable there, there being no room for her in the inn, and so very probably had no women about her to assist her, nor any midwife with her; and there was the more visible appearance of the hand of God in this affair, who might truly be said to take him out of the womb:

thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts; which may be understood of the expectation and hope, common to infants, which have not the use of reason, with all creatures, whose eyes wait upon the Lord, and he gives them their meat in due season; and here may regard the sudden and suitable provision of milk in the mother's breast, to which there is in the infant a natural desire, and an hope and expectation of. The words may be rendered, as they are by some, "thou didst keep me in safety", or make me safe and secure z, when I was "upon my mother's breast": this was verified in Christ at the time Herod sought to take away his life; he was then in his mother's arms, and sucked at her breast; when the Lord in a dream acquainted Joseph with Herod's design, and directed him to flee with the young child and his mother into Egypt, where they were kept in safety till the death of Herod. This sense of the words frees them from a difficulty, how the grace of hope, or of faith and confidence, can, in a proper sense, be exercised in the infant state; for though the principle of grace may be implanted so early, yet how it should be exercised when there is not the due use of reason is not easy to conceive; if, therefore, the words are taken in this sense, the meaning must be, that he was caused to hope as soon as he was capable of it, which is sometimes the design of such a phrase; see Job 31:18; unless we suppose something extraordinary in Christ's human nature, which some interpreters are not willing to allow, because he was in all things like unto us excepting sin; but I see not, that seeing the human nature was an extraordinary one, was perfectly holy from the first of it, the grace of God was upon it as soon as born, and it was anointed with the Holy Ghost above its fellows, why it may not be thought to exercise grace in an extraordinary manner, so early as is here expressed, literally understood.

z מבטיחי "tu me tutum fecisti", Cocceius; so Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But thou art he that took me out of the womb - I owe my life to thee. This is urged by the sufferer as a reason why God should now interpose and protect him. God had brought him into the world, guarding him in the perils of the earliest moments of his being, and he now pleads that in the day of trouble God will interpose and save him. There is nothing improper in applying this to the Messiah. He was a man, with all the innocent propensities and feelings of a man; and no one can say but that when on the cross - and perhaps with special fitness we may say when he saw his mother standing near him John 19:25 - these thoughts may have passed through his mind. In the remembrance of the care bestowed on his early years, he may now have looked with an eye of earnest pleading to God, that, if it were possible, he might deliver him.

Thou didst make me hope - Margin, “Keptest me in safety.” The phrase in the Hebrew means, Thou didst cause me to trust or to hope. It may mean here either that he was made to cherish a hope of the divine favor “in very early life,” as it were when an infant at the breast; or it may mean that he had cause then to hope, or to trust in God. The former, it seems to me, is probably the meaning; and the idea is, that frown his earliest years he had been lea to trust in God; and he now pleads this fact as a reason why he should interpose to save him. Applied to the Redeemer as a man, it means that in his earliest childhood he had trusted in God. His first breathings were those of piety. His first aspirations were for the divine favor. His first love was the love of God. This he now calls to remembrance; this he now urges as a reason why God should not with. draw the light of his countenance, and leave him to suffer alone. No one can prove that these thoughts did not pass through the mind of the Redeemer when he was enduring the agonies of desertion on the cross; no one can show that they would have been improper.

Upon my mother’s breast - In my earliest infancy. This does not mean that he literally cherished hope then, but that he had done it in the earliest period of his life, as the first act of his conscious being.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb — Thou hast made me; and hast guided and defended me from my earliest infancy.


 
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