Ezekiel 3:14; Jeremiah 20:9; Luke 24:32
My heart was hot within me - My mind became more and more excited; my feelings more and more intense. The attempt to suppress my emotions only mo...
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] (d) spake I with my tongue, (d) He confesses that he grudged against God, con...
XXXIX. Prayer of a Pious Israelite in Distress. Psalms 39:3 . The poet, afflicted though he is, is silent in presence of the wicked, lest they sh...
3. My heart became hot within me He now illustrates the greatness of his grief by the introduction of a simile, telling us that his sorrow,...
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, My heart was hot within me - A natural feeling of repr...
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, My heart was hot within me; while I was musing t...
This is a Ps. of great pathos and beauty. The writer's sore sickness, accepted as the punishment of sin ( Psalms 39:9-11 ), has impressed him with th...
Complete silence proved impossible. Pent-up feeling found a safe relief in prayer.
The fire burned. — The attempt at repression only makes the inward flame of feeling burn the more fiercely, till at last it is too much for the res...
Psalms 39:1-13 PROTRACTED suffering, recognised as chastisement for sin, had wasted the psalmist's strength. It had been borne for a while in sile...
the Fleeting Measure of Our Days Psalms 39:1-13 In the opening verses David describes the circumstances out of which this psalm arose. The pres...
Again the circumstances are sorrow and affliction. The attitude of the sufferer is true dignity. If the psalm be taken in connection with the precedi...
We see here the profitableness of silence towards man, for it tended to receive the descendings of grace in leading the mind out in devout meditation...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
My heart was hot within me ,.... Either with zeal for God; or rather with envy at the prosperity of wicked men, and with impatience at his own affli...
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue, Ver. 3. My heart was hot within me ] It was almos...
My heart was hot within me Though I said nothing, I could not but have many affecting thoughts: and “the fire of divine charity, thus prevented fro...
Devout Reflections; Brevity and Vanity of Life. To the chief musician, eve...
Musing, i.e. considering in my own thoughts the great wickedness and successfulness of mine enemies, and other wicked men; and withal mine own and...
1). The Psalmist is determined not to say anything in the presence of unrighteous people that might give them occasion to criticise God. Once he is...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.” Jeduthun was one of the leaders of the sacred music in the...
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Jeduthun was one of those who led the sacred song in the house of God in David's day, and,...
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. David dedicated some Psalms to Asaph, and one or two to Jeduthun. Some of this chief music...
Psalms 39:1 . I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me...
This Psalm gives a description of David's experience and conduct when stretched upon a sick-bed. He appears to have felt impatience working within hi...
This psalm is inscribed to Jeduthun, leader of one of the choral bands in the temple. 1 Chronicles 16:41 ; and bears the name of David. Psalms 3...
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue; I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle. Thought and prayer under tria...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist, vexed and disgusted with life, feeling a desire to murmur and complain, but aware that his words are watched, and his...
The Believer's Attitude in View of the Apparent Happiness of the Godless. To the chief musician, even to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the name of one of Da...
My heart was hot within me, his emotions like a smothered flame, seeking for an outlet; while I was musing, the fire burned, bursting through all r...
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,