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You weren’t pleased
    with burnt offerings and sin offerings.
Then I said, ‘Here I am. It is written about me in the book.
    I have come to do what you want, my God.’ ” (Psalm 40:6–8)

First Christ said, “You didn’t want sacrifices and offerings. You didn’t want burnt offerings and sin offerings. You weren’t pleased with them.” He said this even though they were offered in keeping with the law.

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with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll(A)
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a](B)

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”(C)—though they were offered in accordance with the law.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)