Sacrifice and offering you did not desire –
    but my ears you have opened;[a] –
    burnt offerings and sin offerings[b] you did not require.
Then I said, ‘Here I am, I have come –
    it is written about me in the scroll.[c]
I desire to do your will, my God;
    your law is within my heart.’

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:6 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts but a body you have prepared for me
  2. Psalm 40:6 Or purification offerings
  3. Psalm 40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me