the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Psalms 39:3
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My heart grew hot within me;as I mused, a fire burned.I spoke with my tongue:
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
I became very angry inside, and as I thought about it, my anger burned. So I spoke:
my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words:
My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:
My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,
My heart was hot within me,While I meditated the fire was burning;Then I spoke with my tongue:
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
I felt a fire burning inside, and the more I thought, the more it burned, until at last I said:
I was silent, said nothing, not even good; but my pain kept being stirred up.
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
My heart was hot within me; and my body was on fire; then spoke I with my tongue,
and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more troubled I became; I could not keep from asking:
My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,
My heart was hot within me; while the fire burned I was meditating; I spoke with my tongue,
I helde my tonge, I was domme, I kepte sylence, yee eue from good wordes, but it was payne and grefe to me.
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then spake I with my tongue:
My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.
My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and [at the last] I spake with my tongue.
My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,
My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire kindled: then spake I with my tongue:
Myn herte was hoot with ynne me; and fier schal brenne out in my thenkyng.
My heart was hot inside me; While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] I spoke with my tongue:
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] I spoke with my tongue.
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
The more I thought about it, the hotter I got, igniting a fire of words:
My heart was hot within me. As I thought about things, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,
my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!
(38-4) My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
my heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:
Contextual Overview
To the director, Jeduthun. A song of David.
I said, "I will be careful about what I say. I will not let my tongue cause me to sin. I will keep my mouth closed when I am around wicked people." 2 So I didn't say anything. I didn't even say anything good, but I became even more upset. 3 I was very angry, and the more I thought about it, the angrier I became. So I said something. 4 Lord , tell me, what will happen to me now? Tell me, how long will I live? Let me know how short my life really is. 5 You gave me only a short life. Compared to you, my whole life is nothing. The life of every human is like a cloud that quickly disappears. Selah 6 Our life is like an image in a mirror. We rush through life collecting things, but we don't know who will get them after we die.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jeremiah 20:9, Ezekiel 3:14, Luke 24:32
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:26 - yearned Job 3:1 - opened Job 7:11 - I will not Job 20:2 - my thoughts Job 32:18 - the spirit Job 40:9 - canst
Cross-References
Then Abimelech and Phicol spoke with Abraham. Phicol was the commander of Abimelech's army. They said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
The Lord spoke to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid. I am with you, and I will bless you. I will make your family great. I will do this because of my servant Abraham."
They answered, "Now we know that the Lord is with you. We think that we should make an agreement. We want you to make a promise to us.
Laban said to him, "Please, let me say something. I know that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
When I came, you had little. Now you have much, much more. Every time I did something for you, the Lord blessed you. Now it is time for me to work for myself—it is time to do things for my family."
After some time, the wife of Joseph's master began to pay special attention to him. One day she said to him, "Sleep with me."
But Joseph refused. He said, "My master trusts me with everything in his house. He has given me responsibility for everything here.
My scream scared him and he ran away, but he left his coat with me."
Then she kept his coat until her husband, Joseph's master, came home.
The commander of the guards trusted Joseph with everything that was in the prison. This happened because the Lord was with Joseph. The Lord helped Joseph be successful in everything he did.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My heart was hot within me,.... Either with zeal for God; or rather with envy at the prosperity of wicked men, and with impatience at his own afflictions;
while I was musing the fire burned; not the fire of the divine word, while he was meditating upon it, which caused his heart to burn within him; nor the fire of divine love, the coals whereof give a most vehement flame, when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart, and the thoughts of it are directed by the Spirit of God to dwell in meditation on it; but the fire of passion, anger, and resentment, while meditating on his own adversity, and the prosperity of others;
[then] spake I with my tongue; and so broke the resolution he had made,
Psalms 39:1; he spoke not for God, though to him; not by way of thankfulness for his grace and goodness to him, in supporting him under his exercises; but in a way of complaint, because of his afflictions; it was in prayer he spoke to God with his tongue, and it was unadvisedly with his lips, as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My heart was hot within me - My mind became more and more excited; my feelings more and more intense. The attempt to suppress my emotions only more and more enkindled them.
While I was musing the fire burned - literally, “in my meditation the fire burned.” That is, while I was dwelling on the subject; while I was agitating it in my mind; while I thought about it - the flame was enkindled, and my thoughts found utterance. He was unable longer to suppress his feelings, and he gave vent to them in words. Compare Jeremiah 20:9; Job 32:18-19.
Then spake I with my tongue - That is, in the words which are recorded in this psalm. He gave vent to his pent-up feelings in the language which follows. Even though there was a feeling of murmuring and complaining, he sought relief in stating his real difficulties before God, and in seeking from him direction and support.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 39:3. My heart was hot within me — A natural feeling of repressed grief.
While I was musing — What was at first a simple sensation of heat produced a flame; the fire broke out that had long been smothered. It is a metaphor taken from vegetables, which, being heaped together, begin to heat and ferment, if not scattered and exposed to the air; and will soon produce a flame, and consume themselves and every thing within their reach.
