Psalms 39:3
My heart [is] hot within me, || In my meditating the fire burns, || I have spoken with my tongue.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
In Context
2I was mute [with] silence, || I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:9And I said, “I do not mention Him, || Nor do I speak anymore in His Name,” || And it has been in my heart || As a burning fire shut up in my bones, || And I have been weary of containing, || And I am not able.
Luke 24:32And they said to one another, “Was our heart not burning within us as He was speaking to us in the way, and as He was opening the Writings up to us?”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:2-7
Devout Reflections; Brevity and Vanity of Life. 1 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 a… Read the whole commentary →