{"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/ylt/psalms/39","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:25:30.834Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":39,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":38,"nextChapter":40,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it is,' I know how frail I am."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it is of Thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 39 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 39](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/39)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/39 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}