KJV King James Version
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
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Psalm 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
WEB World English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
ASV American Standard Version
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then spake I with my tongue:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
Surrounding context — Psalm 39
1 To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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Jeremiah 20:9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?Ezekiel 3:14So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
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