the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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THE MESSAGE
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,
I was very angry, and the more I thought about it, the angrier I became. So I said something.
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
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
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."
They said, "We've realized that God is on your side. We'd like to make a deal between us—a covenant that we maintain friendly relations. We haven't bothered you in the past; we treated you kindly and let you leave us in peace. So— God 's blessing be with you!"
Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that God has blessed me because of you." He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."
After Joseph had been taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelites, Potiphar an Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and the manager of his household, bought him from them. As it turned out, God was with Joseph and things went very well with him. He ended up living in the home of his Egyptian master. His master recognized that God was with him, saw that God was working for good in everything he did. He became very fond of Joseph and made him his personal aide. He put him in charge of all his personal affairs, turning everything over to him. From that moment on, God blessed the home of the Egyptian—all because of Joseph. The blessing of God spread over everything he owned, at home and in the fields, and all Potiphar had to concern himself with was eating three meals a day. Joseph was a strikingly handsome man. As time went on, his master's wife became infatuated with Joseph and one day said, "Sleep with me."
He wouldn't do it. He said to his master's wife, "Look, with me here, my master doesn't give a second thought to anything that goes on here—he's put me in charge of everything he owns. He treats me as an equal. The only thing he hasn't turned over to me is you. You're his wife, after all! How could I violate his trust and sin against God?"
She kept his coat right there until his master came home. She told him the same story. She said, "The Hebrew slave, the one you brought to us, came after me and tried to use me for his plaything. When I yelled and screamed, he left his coat with me and ran outside."
As Saul more and more realized that God was with David, and how much his own daughter, Michal, loved him, his fear of David increased and settled into hate. Saul hated David.
I shot back, "The God-of-Heaven will make sure we succeed. We're his servants and we're going to work, rebuilding. You can keep your nose out of it. You get no say in this—Jerusalem's none of your business!"
A Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies: "At that time, ten men speaking a variety of languages will grab the sleeve of one Jew, hold tight, and say, ‘Let us go with you. We've heard that God is with you.'"
"And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind, pretenders whose true membership is in the club of Satan—watch as I strip off their pretensions and they're forced to acknowledge it's you that I've loved.
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.
