{"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/web/psalms/39","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:42:03.992Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.|"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.| Selah."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.| Selah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.| For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 39 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 39](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/39)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/39 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}