◄ Psalm 39:3 {38:4} ►
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Good News Translation
and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more troubled I became; I could not keep from asking:

New Revised Standard Version
my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

Contemporary English Version
I felt a fire burning inside, and the more I thought, the more it burned, until at last I said:

New American Bible
my heart smolders within me. In my sighing a fire blazes up, and I break into speech:

Douay-Rheims Bible
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Ezekiel 3:14 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

Luke 24:32 And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?

Context
I Will Watch My Ways
…2I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed. 3My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.4I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.…
Cross References
Luke 24:32
And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?

Psalm 32:3
Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Psalm 39:2
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