{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/psalms/39","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:10:02.018Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":39,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":38,"nextChapter":40,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then'spake I with my tongue:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches , and knoweth not who shall gather them."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 39 (ASV)","markdown":"[Psalms 39](https://primebible.com/asv/psalms/39)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/psalms/39 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}