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Lord, you made me understand this:[a]
    You don’t really want sacrifices and grain offerings.
    You don’t want burnt offerings and sin offerings.
So I said, “Here I am,
    ready to do what was written about me in the book.
My God, I am happy to do whatever you want.
    I never stop thinking about your teachings.”

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  1. Psalm 40:6 you made … this Literally, “you have dug my ears.” The ancient Greek version has “you prepared a body for me.”

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