⁶ Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—^(A)
    but my ears you have opened^[a]—^(B)
    burnt offerings^(C) and sin offerings^[b] you did not require.
⁷ Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—
    it is written about me in the scroll.^[c](D)
8 I desire to do your will,^(E) my God;^(F)
    your law is within my heart.”^(G)

⁹ I proclaim your saving acts^(H) in the great assembly;^(I)
    I do not seal my lips, Lord,
    as you know.^(J)
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
    I speak of your faithfulness^(K) and your saving help.
I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness
    from the great assembly.^(L)

¹¹ Do not withhold your mercy^(M) from me, Lord;
    may your love^(N) and faithfulness^(O) always protect^(P) me.
¹² For troubles^(Q) without number surround me;
    my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.^(R)
They are more than the hairs of my head,^(S)
    and my heart fails^(T) within me.
¹³ Be pleased to save me, Lord;
    come quickly, Lord, to help me.^(U)

¹⁴ May all who want to take my life^(V)
    be put to shame and confusion;^(W)
may all who desire my ruin^(X)
    be turned back in disgrace.
¹⁵ May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”^(Y)
    be appalled at their own shame.
¹⁶ But may all who seek you^(Z)
    rejoice and be glad^(AA) in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say,
    “The Lord is great!”^(AB)

¹⁷ But as for me, I am poor and needy;^(AC)
    may the Lord think^(AD) of me.
You are my help^(AE) and my deliverer;^(AF)
    you are my God, do not delay.^(AG)

¹⁴ “Come together,^(H) all of you, and listen:
    Which of the idols has foretold^(I) these things?
The Lord’s chosen ally^(J)
    will carry out his purpose^(K) against Babylon;^(L)
    his arm will be against the Babylonians.^[a]
15 I, even I, have spoken;
    yes, I have called^(M) him.
I will bring him,
    and he will succeed^(N) in his mission.

“From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;^(Q)
    at the time it happens, I am there.”

And now the Sovereign Lord^(R) has sent^(S) me,
    endowed with his Spirit.^(T)

¹⁷ This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,^(U) the Holy One^(V) of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches^(W) you what is best for you,
    who directs^(X) you in the way^(Y) you should go.
¹⁸ If only you had paid attention^(Z) to my commands,
    your peace^(AA) would have been like a river,^(AB)
    your well-being^(AC) like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ Your descendants^(AD) would have been like the sand,^(AE)
    your children like its numberless grains;^(AF)
their name would never be blotted out^(AG)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

²⁰ Leave Babylon,
    flee^(AH) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy^(AI)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;^(AJ)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed^(AK) his servant Jacob.”
²¹ They did not thirst^(AL) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow^(AM) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.^(AN)