Psalms 39:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

Psalms 39:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 24:32
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Ezekiel 3:14
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Meditation Self-Examination

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

David here recollects, and leaves upon record, the workings of his heart under his afflictions; and it is good for us to do so, that what was thought amiss may be amended, and what was well thought of may be improved the next time. I. He remembered the covenants he had made with God to walk circumspectly, and to be very cautious both of what he did and what he said. When at any time we are tempted…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. His emotions, as a smothered flame, burst forth.