Psalms 39:2
“I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.”
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Psalms 39:2 Context
1[To the chiefe Musician, euen to Ieduthun, A Psalme of Dauid.] I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred. 3My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue. 4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
- King James Version
I was mute and silent, I refrained {even} from good, And my sorrow grew worse.
- New American Standard Version (1995)