Let thy meditation be sweet unto him:\par\tab I will rejoice in Jehovah.
Luke 24:32 - American Standard Version 2015 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they said to one another, Were not our hearts greatly moved and burning within us while He was talking with us on the road and as He opened and explained to us [the sense of] the Scriptures? American Standard Version (1901) And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? Common English Bible They said to each other, “Weren’t our hearts on fire when he spoke to us along the road and when he explained the scriptures for us?” Catholic Public Domain Version And they said to one another, "Was not our heart burning within us, while he was speaking on the way, and when he opened the Scriptures to us?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in this way, and opened to us the scriptures? |
Let thy meditation be sweet unto him:\par\tab I will rejoice in Jehovah.
My heart was hot within me;\par\tab While I was musing the fire burned:\par\tab {\i Then} spake I with my tongue:
Iron sharpeneth iron;\par\tab So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart;\par\tab So doth the sweetness of a man's friend {\i that cometh} of hearty counsel.
The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot {\i contain}.
Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.
Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded {\i the matter}, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.