You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.[a]
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.(A)
Then I said, “See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.(B)
I delight to do Your will, my God;(C)
Your instruction lives within me.”[b](D)

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  1. Psalm 40:6 Lit You hollow out ears for me
  2. Psalm 40:8 Lit instruction within my inner being

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

“Take a scroll,(A) and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time I first spoke to you during Josiah’s reign until today.

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“Take a scroll(A) and write on it all the words(B) I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah(C) till now.

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When He again[a] brings His firstborn into the world,(A) He says, And all God’s angels must worship Him.(B)[b]

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  1. Hebrews 1:6 Or And again, when He
  2. Hebrews 1:6 Dt 32:43 LXX; Ps 97:7

And again, when God brings his firstborn(A) into the world,(B) he says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”[a](C)

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  1. Hebrews 1:6 Deut. 32:43 (see Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint)