Salmos 39:3

3 Cuanto más pensaba,
más me enardecía,
hasta que disparé un fuego de palabras:

Salmos 39:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 39:3

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 afflictions;

while I was musing the fire burned;
not the fire of the divine word, while he was meditating upon it, which caused his heart to burn within him; nor the fire of divine love, the coals whereof give a most vehement flame, when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart, and the thoughts of it are directed by the Spirit of God to dwell in meditation on it; but the fire of passion, anger, and resentment, while meditating on his own adversity, and the prosperity of others;

[then] spake I with my tongue;
and so broke the resolution he had made, ( Psalms 39:1 ) ; he spoke not for God, though to him; not by way of thankfulness for his grace and goodness to him, in supporting him under his exercises; but in a way of complaint, because of his afflictions; it was in prayer he spoke to God with his tongue, and it was unadvisedly with his lips, as follows.

Salmos 39:3 In-Context

1 Salmo 39
Para Jedutún, director del coro: salmo de David.
Me dije: «Tendré cuidado con lo que hago
y no pecaré en lo que digo.
Refrenaré la lengua
cuando los que viven sin Dios anden cerca».

2 Pero mientras estaba allí en silencio
—sin siquiera hablar de cosas buenas—,
el torbellino en mi interior se hizo cada vez peor.

3 Cuanto más pensaba,
más me enardecía,
hasta que disparé un fuego de palabras:

4 «S
, recuérdame lo breve que será mi tiempo sobre la tierra.
Recuérdame que mis días están contados,
¡y cuán fugaz es mi vida!

5 La vida que me has dado no es más larga que el ancho de mi mano.
Toda mi vida es apenas un instante para ti;
cuando mucho, cada uno de nosotros es apenas un suspiro».
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