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Psalms 39:3
Psalms 39:3 is verse 3 of Psalms chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
King James Version
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
World English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
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Psalms 39:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
2 I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 20:9If 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 holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Ezekiel 3:14So 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.
Luke 24:32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”