Psalm 39:3
New International Version
my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

New Living Translation
The more I thought about it, the hotter I got, igniting a fire of words:

English Standard Version
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

Berean Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

King James Bible
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

New King James Version
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

New American Standard Bible
My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

NASB 1995
My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

NASB 1977
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

Legacy Standard Bible
My heart was hot within me, While I meditated the fire was burning; Then I spoke with my tongue:

Amplified Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

Christian Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, a fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, a fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:”

American Standard Version
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then spake I with my tongue:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My heart is hot within me and fire is renewed in my body; I meditated with my tongue.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

Contemporary English Version
I felt a fire burning inside, and the more I thought, the more it burned, until at last I said:

Douay-Rheims Bible
My heart grew hot within me : and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

English Revised Version
My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire kindled: then spake I with my tongue:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My heart burned like a fire flaring up within me. Then I spoke with my tongue:

Good News Translation
and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more troubled I became; I could not keep from asking:

International Standard Version
My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:

JPS Tanakh 1917
My heart waxed hot within me; While I was musing, the fire kindled; Then spoke I with my tongue:

Literal Standard Version
My heart [is] hot within me, | In my meditating the fire burns, | I have spoken with my tongue.

Majority Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

New American Bible
my heart smolders within me. In my sighing a fire blazes up, and I break into speech:

NET Bible
my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words:

New Revised Standard Version
my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

New Heart English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

Webster's Bible Translation
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue.

World English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Young's Literal Translation
Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
I Will Watch My Ways
2I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred. 3My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue: 4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.…

Cross References
Luke 24:32
They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"

Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name," His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.


Treasury of Scripture

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

Jeremiah 20:9
Then 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.

Ezekiel 3:14
So 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.

Luke 24:32
And 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?

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Psalm 39
1. David's care of his thoughts
4. The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life
7. the reverence of God's judgments
10. and prayer, are his bridles of impatience














(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 speak

Than 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.

Verse 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

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My heart
לִבִּ֨י ׀ (lib·bî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

grew hot
חַם־ (ḥam-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2552: To be or become warm

within me;
בְּקִרְבִּ֗י (bə·qir·bî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center

as I mused,
בַּהֲגִיגִ֥י (ba·hă·ḡî·ḡî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1901: A whisper, musing, murmuring

the fire
אֵ֑שׁ (’êš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

burned.
תִבְעַר־ (ṯiḇ·‘ar-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

[Then] I spoke
דִּ֝בַּ֗רְתִּי (dib·bar·tî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

with my tongue:
בִּלְשֽׁוֹנִי׃ (bil·šō·w·nî)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue


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