I am fearfully and wonderfully made

Primary source

• Lancelot C. L. Brenton (trans.), The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, 1844, Psalm 138:14 (Hebrew 139:14)The Greek Septuagint makes God, not the speaker, the one who is fearfully wondrous in Psalm 139:14.

  I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works

• Jerome (Gallican Psalter), Clementine Vulgate, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Psalmorum, 1592, Psalm 138:14The Latin Vulgate reads 'thou art fearfully magnified', praising God rather than the speaker's making.

  Confitebor tibi, quia terribiliter magnificatus es

The tradition itself

• Babylonian Talmud (William Davidson Edition, trans. Adin Steinsaltz), Niddah 31a, 500, Niddah 31aRabbi Yosei HaGelili reads Psalm 139:14 as wonder at God forming one child in the womb from both parents' seed.

  Come and see that the attribute of flesh and blood is unlike the attribute of the Holy One