Psalms Chapter 39 verse 3 Holy Bible
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: `Then' spake I with my tongue:
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My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
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My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
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Hot `is' my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
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Psalms 39 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - My heart was hot within me; or, grew hot (Kay). And while I was musing the fire burned; or, kindled (Revised Version). Then spake I with my tongue; i.e. aloud, articulately. I could not - at any rate, I did not - refrain myself. I burst out in speech, and made my moan to God
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) The fire burned.--The attempt at repression only makes the inward flame of feeling burn the more fiercely, till at last it is too much for the resolution that has been formed, and the passion of the heart breaks out in words. Like the modern poet, the Hebrew bard had felt"Twere better not to breathe or speakThan cry for strength, remaining weak,And seem to find, but still to seek.""But thought is too much for him, and he breaks into speech, not, however, fretfully, still less with bitter invective against others. It is a dialogue with the ruler of destiny, in which frail man wants to face his condition, and know the worst.
