Psalms 39:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 39:3

My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

BSB

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ASV

My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then spake I with my tongue:

KJV

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

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Commentary

2 voices

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9:9.7 (253)

In the Gospel it was written, after the Lord spoke to Cleopas, "Was not our heart burning within us when he opened the Scriptures to us?" Where will you burn? Where will "the coals of fire" be found in you who are never set on fire by the declaration of the Lord, never inflamed by the words of the Holy Spirit? Hear also … David … saying, "My heart burned within me, and in my meditation fire became inflamed." From where do you glow? Where is the fire kindled in you?

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

My heart was hot within me. The friction of inward thoughts produced an intense mental heat. The door of his heart was shut, and with the fire of sorrow burning within, the chamber of his soul soon grew unbearable with heat. Silence is an awful thing for a sufferer, it is the surest method to produce madness. Mourner, tell your sorrow; do it first and most fully to God, but even to pour it out before some wise and godly friend is far from being wasted breath. While I was musing the fire burned.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חַם־	cham-	it became hot	H2552 →
לִבִּ֨י׀	li.Bi	heart my	H3820 →
בְּקִרְבִּ֗י	be.kir.Bi	in inner being my	H7130 →
בַּהֲגִיגִ֥י	ba.ha.gi.Gi	in sighing my	H1901 →
תִבְעַר־	tiv.'ar-	it burned	H1197 →
אֵ֑שׁ	'Esh	fire	H784 →
דִּ֝בַּ֗רְתִּי	di.Bar.ti	I spoke	H1696 →
בִּלְשֽׁוֹנִי׃	bil.Sho.ni	with tongue my	H3956 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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…
leads to
- Job 32:18–20
  For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
- Acts 4:20
  For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- 1 Corinthians 9:16–17
  Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- Acts 17:16
  While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
- 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.
Through
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?”
leads to
- Luke 24:45
  Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- Jeremiah 23:29
  “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
- Hebrews 4:12
  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms