Parallel Verses
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,
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:
A Conservative Version
My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue:
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:
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 held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me. 3 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue, 4 "LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:9
Wherefore, I thought from henceforth not to speak of him, nor to preach anymore in his name. But the word of the LORD was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, which when I would have stopped, I might not.
Luke 24:32
and they said between themselves, "Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, as he opened to us the scriptures?"
Ezekiel 3:14
Now when the spirit took me up, and carried me away, I went with a heavy and sorrowful mind, but the hand of the LORD comforted me right soon.