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(A)Ssaddaaka n’ebiweebwayo tewabyagala.
    Ebiweebwayo ebyokebwa olw’okutangirira ebibi,
tobyetaaga.
    Naye onzigudde amatu.
Kyenava njogera nti, “Nzuuno,
    nzize nga bwe kyampandiikibwako mu muzingo gw’ekitabo.”
(B)Nsanyukira okukola ky’oyagala, Ayi Katonda wange,
    kubanga amateeka go gali mu mutima gwange.

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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.
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—
    it is written about me in the scroll.[c](D)
I desire to do your will,(E) my God;(F)
    your law is within my heart.”(G)

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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

16 (A)Tosanyukira ssaddaaka, nandigikuleetedde;
    n’ebiweebwayo ebyokebwa tobisanyukira.
17 (B)Ssaddaaka Katonda gy’ayagala gwe mwoyo ogutegedde okusobya kwagwo.
    Omutima ogumenyese era oguboneredde,
    Ayi Katonda, toogugayenga.

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16 You do not delight in sacrifice,(A) or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice,(B) O God, is[a] a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart(C)
    you, God, will not despise.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:17 Or The sacrifices of God are