Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
The verse portrays God himself forming the child's body, clothing it with skin and flesh and fencing it securely with bones and sinews. The body thus fashioned is God's own handiwork, placed in trust in the mother's hands. She is therefore charged to guard and tend that entrusted work, preserving its natural development and marring nothing of its divinely ordered growth.
The verse portrays God himself forming the child's body, clothing it with skin and flesh and fencing it securely with bones and sinews. The body thus fashioned is God's own handiwork, placed in trust in the mother's hands. She is therefore charged to guard and tend that entrusted work, preserving its natural development and marring nothing of its divinely ordered growth.