Psalms 139:14

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 139

15 songs meet this passage

  • “There's not a thing that I would change”

    Just the Way You Are · Bruno Mars

    resonates with Psalms 139:14

    Affirms the inherent worth of a person as 'fearfully and wonderfully made,' echoing the song's refusal to want her changed.

  • Black Friday · Tom Odell

    strains against Psalms 139:14

    The speaker's obsession with a 'better body' and 'better skin' sits in direct tension with the psalmist's declaration of being fearfully and wonderfully made. The song's spiral of self-rejection is the opposite posture.

  • Messy · Lola Young

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    She feels no version of herself is enough for her partner; this passage counters that despair with the claim that she is already fearfully and wonderfully made, not a project to be reshaped for someone else's approval.

  • 12 to 12 · sombr

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    The singer's sense of being unlovable stands against the psalmist's confidence that each person is fearfully and wonderfully made and valued by God, regardless of a lover's response.

  • “You're original, cannot be replaced”

    Firework · Katy Perry

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    The claim of irreplaceable worth lines up with Scripture's teaching that each person is fearfully and wonderfully made, though the song doesn't name the Maker.

  • What Makes You Beautiful · One Direction

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    The affirmation of inherent worth resembles this psalm's declaration that each person is fearfully and wonderfully made, though the song roots that worth in another's gaze rather than God's.

  • No Longer Slaves (Live) · Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser & Melissa Helser

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    Affirms being known and formed by God before birth, grounding the song's claim of being chosen from the womb.

  • “I could be someone, be someone”

    Fast Car · Luke Combs

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    Her longing to 'be someone' through a relationship or escape points to an identity search that Scripture locates instead in being fearfully and wonderfully made.

  • Into the Unknown · Idina Menzel & AURORA

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    The sense of an emerging identity and purpose echoes the psalmist's wonder at being fearfully and wonderfully made for something specific.

  • Cosmic Warrior · Kid Cudi

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    The sense of being fearfully and purposefully made resonates, even though the song credits itself rather than a Maker.

  • “I gotta thank the Lord that you made me”

    Dear Mama (Remix Version) [feat. Anthony Hamilton] · 2Pac

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-14

    A rare direct acknowledgment of God's hand in his existence, turning gratitude toward his mother into gratitude toward his Maker.

  • “before i don't fucking hate myself”

    Dead Or Alive · Izumi is dead

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    Self-hatred here stands against the psalmist's declaration that a person is fearfully and wonderfully made, worth something apart from how they're treated.

  • “am I even a person?”

    Not My Time · Hotbox

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    The disorientation about one's own identity stands against the psalm's confidence that a person is fearfully and wonderfully made and known.

  • “Who am I? Who am I? Don't remind me”

    By Design (feat. Andre Benjamin) · Kid Cudi

    strains against Psalms 139:13-14

    The song's identity confusion is met by Scripture's grounding of identity in being known and made by God rather than self-constructed.

  • “Before I took a breath, you breathe your life in me”

    Reckless Love · Cory Asbury

    resonates with Psalms 139:13-16

    Echoes the psalmist's picture of God's intimate authorship of life before it's even lived.

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