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You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings—
    you have prepared my ears to listen—[a]
        you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.
Then I said, “Here I am! I have come!
    In the scroll of the book it is written about me.
I delight to do your will, my God.
    Your Law is part of my inner being.”

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  1. Psalm 40:6 The Heb. lacks to listen

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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  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