Psalms 139:14 (WEB)

Passage

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Nearby Context

Psalms 139:12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Psalms 139:13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalms 139:14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Psalms 139:15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Psalms 139:16 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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "give", "thanks", "fearfully", "wonderfully", "works", "soul", and "knows". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "give" and "thanks", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "For you formed my inmost being You..." into verse 15's "My frame wasn t hidden from you...", so "give" and "thanks" belong inside that flow. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "give" and "thanks" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.