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Lord, my God,
    You have done great things:
        marvelous works and your thoughts toward us.
There is no one who compares to you!
    I will try to recite your actions,[a]
        even though there are too many to number.

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings—
    you have prepared my ears to listen—[b]
        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.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:5 Lit. recite them
  2. Psalm 40:6 The Heb. lacks to listen