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Psalms 39:3

AngerGriefWords and speech

1 I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

2 I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

My 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.

5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

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BSB
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
KJV
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
WEB
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
ASV
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] spake I with my tongue:
DARBY
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
BLB
My heart became hot within me; in my musing, a fire was kindled; I have spoken with my tongue:
ÅB
Hjertet mitt ble hett i meg;
mens jeg grublet, brant det en ild.
Jeg talte med tungen:
OTB
Mitt hjerte brant i meg,
Mens jeg tenkte, ble ilden tent;
Da talte jeg med min tunge:
B1930
Mitt hjerte blev hett inneni mig, ved min grublen optendtes ild; - jeg talte med min tunge:

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Cross references

  • 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.

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  • 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?”

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  • Ezekiel 3:14

    So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

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