Psalms 139:13

For it was thou that didst form my reins] Thou is emphatic. The connexion of thought expressed by foris not obvious; but it appears to give a reason for the intimate knowledge of which the preceding verses have spoken. -Thou knowest me, for Thou didst create me." Psalms 139:14 will then be a parenthetical exclamation of adoring wonder. The transposition of Psalms 139:13, proposed by some critics, removes the difficulty and gives a clearer connexion of thought, but poetry does not bind itself by forms of logic.

my reins The inmost seat of the emotions, which God -tries" (Psalms 7:9).

thou hast covered me Better, thou didst knit me together, with bones and sinews. Cp. Job 10:8-11.