<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">That’s an interesting translation. I’ve never read the Psalm in that version. <div><br></div><div>But I wanted to say that this Psalm is deeply meaningful to many LGBT+ Christians, particularly —</div><div><br></div><div>"<b>You It was who fashioned my inward parts,</b><p><b>You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.</b></p><p><b>I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.</b></p><p><b>Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.</b></p><p><b>You know me through and through,</b></p><p><b>my body is no mystery to You,</b></p><p><b>how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,</b></p><p><b>and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.</b></p><p><br></p><div>After being told all one’s life that there is something fundamentally “unnatural” or “wrong” with who you are, to read “and wonderful are Your works. . . my body is no mystery to You” is incredibly powerful.</div><div><br></div><div>(Or as it is translated in the NRSV —</div><div><br></div><div><p class="q1" style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; max-width: 30rem; padding-left: 1.5rem; text-indent: -1.5rem; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 30); color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span class="verse-span" data-verse-id="PSA.139.13" data-verse-org-ids="PSA.139.13" style="box-sizing: border-box; --scroll-margin-top: 135px; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); cursor: pointer;">For it was you who formed my inward parts;</span></p><p class="q2" style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; max-width: 30rem; padding-left: 1.5rem; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 30); color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span class="verse-span" data-verse-id="PSA.139.13" data-verse-org-ids="PSA.139.13" style="box-sizing: border-box; --scroll-margin-top: 135px; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); cursor: pointer;">you knit me together in my mother's womb.</span></p><p class="q1" style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; max-width: 30rem; padding-left: 1.5rem; text-indent: -1.5rem; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 30); color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span class="verse-span" data-verse-id="PSA.139.14" data-verse-org-ids="PSA.139.14" style="box-sizing: border-box; --scroll-margin-top: 135px; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); cursor: pointer;"><span data-number="14" class="v" style="box-sizing: border-box; --scroll-margin-top: 135px; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); font-size: 0.75em; margin-right: 4px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: super;">14</span></span><span class="verse-span" data-verse-id="PSA.139.14" data-verse-org-ids="PSA.139.14" style="box-sizing: border-box; --scroll-margin-top: 135px; scroll-margin-top: var(--scroll-margin-top); cursor: pointer;">I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.</span></p></div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 13, 2025, at 07:38, David Marshall via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>You It was who fashioned my inward parts,</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>You know me through and through,</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>my body is no mystery to You,</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>You saw my limbs unformed in the womb—</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>and in Your book they are all recorded—</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>day by day they were fashioned,</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b>not one of them was late in growing.</b></p></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>