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.
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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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39:1I 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.
39:1¶ I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
39:2†I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
39:3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
39:3My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
Selected passage39:4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
39:4‖ LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.
39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
39:5†*Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
39:6†Surely euery man walketh in a vaine shew: surely they are disquieted in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
39:7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
39:7And now LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
39:8Deliuer me from all my transgressions: make mee not the reproch of the foolish.
39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
39:9I was dumbe, I opened not my mouth; because thou diddest it.
39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
39:10†Remooue thy stroke away from mee: I am consumed by the blowe of thine hand.
39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
39:11†When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
39:12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
39:12*Heare my prayer, O LORD, and giue eare vnto my crie, hold not thy peace at my teares: for I am a straunger with thee, and a soiourner, as all my fathers were.
39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
39:13O spare me, that I may recouer strength: before I goe hence, and be no more.