“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.”
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. God's creative action in forming the psalmist is presented as the foundation for divine omniscience; God knows the psalmist exhaustively because God has created the psalmist. Knitted together suggests intimate craftsmanship; the divine formation of the human body is detailed and purposeful. The mother's womb becomes the location of God's direct creative work; formation of human life is God's own activity. This verse grounds omniscience in creative origination; to create is to know completely.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:13
1. ...Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He makes Himself one with us; as it is said, “they two shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord says in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh; not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. Whatsoever then our Lord speaks in the person of the Flesh He took upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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