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Sacrifice and offering You did not desire
—my ears You have opened—
burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
Then I said: “Here I am, I have come—
in the scroll of a book it is written about me.
I delight to do Your will, O my God.
Yes, Your Torah is within my being.”

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

I proclaim your saving acts(E) in the great assembly;(F)
    I do not seal my lips, Lord,
    as you know.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

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