Psalm 139:14 vs. “Wonderful”

Seeds Kids Worship (Seeds Family Worship) · checked 2026-07-25

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What we checked

PassagePsalm 139:14 chapter ↗ 1 more proof on Psalm 139 →

Translation shownBSB (Berean Standard Bible)

Presents itself asquotation

Categoryword-for-word ✓

AlbumHope · 2021

Words addressed toGod, person unspecified

Teaching or experiencescripture set to music

Graded against the standard

Quotation criteria this song presents words as scripture, so these apply

✓Text-faithful

✓Translation named

✓Context kept

Applies to every song the Name held holy · God shown holy · true of God · the standard

✓Reverent treatment

✓ What's good

One verse, word for word: nothing added, dropped, or reordered
The translation is named in the track title, so checking it takes seconds
The publisher states the word-for-word claim plainly, which makes the claim checkable rather than implied
Built for memorisation, which is the honest use of a repeated song

⚠ Cautions

None. This is the standard, met.

Verse Proof

Psalm 139:14

The text in BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

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

David, near the end of a psalm about being fully known. The first half traces God's knowledge of him (where he sits, what he will say before he says it) and God's presence everywhere he could possibly go. Verse 14 is his response to being made: the wonder is directed at the maker, not at the thing made. The psalm then ends by asking God to search him and lead him.

WHAT THE SONG SINGS — Psalm 139:14, verbatim, ESV, translation named in the title

The song is the verse. Seeds sets Psalm 139:14 to a short, repeatable kids' melody, and the words are the verse's words in the verse's order. The translation is not left to inference either: the ESV is named in the track title itself, and the publisher states the song is "word for word Scripture taken from Psalm 139:14 (ESV)." (The text shown above is BSB, because this site quotes freely-usable translations. The ESV wording differs slightly, as any two translations do. What matters is that the song matches its own named translation.)

Nothing shifted. The song's ambition is small on purpose: one verse, sung until a child owns it. The naming of the translation is done in the plainest possible place, the song title, where nobody has to go looking for it.

✓ Word-for-Word Verified: every word, in order, translation named in the title itself — the standard, met in full.

A child will carry the wording they sang for decades, so the wording should be the verse.

Why it matters

Children's scripture music is where the word-for-word standard matters most and gets checked least. A child who learns a verse by singing it will carry that wording for decades, and whatever was smoothed out to make it rhyme gets carried too. Seeds' whole method is to refuse that trade: pick the verse, sing the verse, name the version, let the melody carry the memorising.

It is also the clearest example on this site of how cheap the "translation named" criterion is to satisfy. Seeds puts it in the track title. That one habit is the difference between a song a parent can check in ten seconds and a song they have to take on trust.

Is it safe to dwell on?

Sung on repeat, this song fixes your attention on God.

This is the repeat test at its simplest. What repetition plants here is one verse of scripture, and the verse points the wonder at God: You made me, Your works are marvelous. A child singing it two hundred times has memorised a line about the maker, not a line about themselves feeling special, which is the direction the same idea usually drifts in general-market music. Short and repetitive is not a weakness here. It is the delivery mechanism. Colossians 3:16 describes exactly this: the word of Christ dwelling in you richly as you sing.

Helpful comparison

Compare this with "The Blessing," also on this site. Both sing scripture faithfully. One names its translation and one does not, and that single difference is what separates Word-for-Word Verified from Faithful and Labeled here. Neither song misquotes anything. The standard is not measuring sincerity, it is measuring whether a listener can check the quotation without asking anyone.

Sources

Seeds Kids Worship — Wonderful (Psalm 139:14 ESV) · ("word for word Scripture taken from Psalm 139:14 (ESV)")
Seeds Kids Worship — scripture reference song list · (the catalogue, indexed by verse)
The Gospel Coalition — Seeds scripture-memory albums, on the switch to the ESV

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