Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue:
New American Standard Bible
While I was musing 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,
Holman Bible
as I mused, a fire burned.
I spoke with my tongue:
International Standard Version
My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:
American Standard Version
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then'spake I with my tongue:
Amplified
My heart was hot within me.
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:
Bible in Basic English
My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
Darby Translation
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
Julia Smith Translation
My heart was hot in the midst of me; in my heat the fire will burn: I spake with my tongue.
King James 2000
My heart was hot within me, while I was meditating the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,
Lexham Expanded Bible
My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue,
Modern King James verseion
My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue,
NET Bible
my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words:
New Heart English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
The Emphasized Bible
Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!
Webster
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue.
World English Bible
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
Youngs Literal Translation
Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
Themes
Fire » Illustrative of » Zeal of saints
Fire » Inward » Kindled by meditation
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 39:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fleeting Nature Of Life
2 I was mute 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] I spoke with my tongue: 4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:9
And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.
Luke 24:32
And they said to each other, Was not our heart burning within us while he spoke to us on the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?
Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away. And I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of LORD was strong upon me.