10/28/2026
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. Psalm 139:14
We can read something many times yet not understand the depth of what is being said.
Here David is proclaiming to God, how well He knows every aspect of him. And that there is nowhere David can go that God isn't with him.
Verse 14 is a most highly quoted scripture. As I was talking with God about my tendency to overthink….this verse came to me. I thought what do the words ‘fearfully’ and ‘wonderfully’ mean in their original language. Because sometimes there is a nugget within the translation that expands knowledge or brings new revelation or does both simultaneously.
I was today years when I learned while looking up ‘fearfully’ in the Hebrew (yare’) that the word ‘august’ is not just a month. It is also an adjective that means dignified, majestic, or inspiring reverence. Yare’ (fearfully) also means stupendous, admirable, or in a wonderful manner.
‘Wonderfully’ is pala in the Hebrew…and it means to make separate/set apart, to distinguish, or make distinction. When our kids say they are “built different” they absolutely are. Because God, our Abba, saw to it that He formed us each distinctly in a wonderful manner.