Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
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- Jeremiah 20:9Rank 1 from verse 3
9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
9**Then I said; I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart, as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
- Luke 24:32Rank 2 from verse 3
- Ezekiel 3:14Rank 3 from verse 3
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Psalms 39:3
Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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Sense 1: Having great heat. Sense 2: Ardent, vehement, or eager.
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Pondering, reflecting, meditating, or thinking deeply and inwardly until thought is stirred toward speech or action.
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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.
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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.
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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.
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1. The organ of the mouth used for tasting and speech. 2. Speech, words, or a language. 3. A tongue-shaped projection or arm of land or water.
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2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
2†I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
3My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
Selected passage4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
4‖ LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.