Psalms 39:3
I was dumb with silence, 1 I held my peace for the sake of tov; 1 and my distress grew severe. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
4My lev became hot within me; 1 while I was musing the eish burned; 1 then I spoke with my leshon: 1
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not make mention of Him, 1 nor speak any more in Shmo. 1 But His word was in Mine lev as a burning eish 1 shut up in my atzmot, 1 and I was weary of holding back, 1 and I could not. 1
Luke 24:32And they said to one another, Were not our levavot burning within us as he was speaking to us on the derech, as he was opening to us the Kitvei Hakodesh?
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 →