Bible Strands
Psalms 22:9
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks during a moment of public mockery, countering taunts about divine abandonment by recalling God’s past care.
The words — The Hebrew terms אַתָּה ('a.Tah, "you") and מַבְטִיחִי (mav.ti.Ch/i, "making secure") anchor the verse’s claim of direct, personal divine action.
The thread — The motif of divine formation and sustenance from the womb appears in Psalms 71:6 and Isaiah 49:1.
Why it lands — The text asserts God’s active role in the speaker’s physical origin and ongoing trust before any inferred theological claims about salvation.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Psalms 71:6 I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
- Isaiah 49:1 Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Psalms 71:17 O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Psalms 139:15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Matthew 2:13 When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
- Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Revelation 12:4 His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, hurling them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.