Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
"Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Since God forms us in the womb, He also breathes upon us, as He also did at the first creation, when “the LordGod formed man, and breathed into him the breath of life.”1692