New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 40:6-12

6 1 2Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have 3opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.7Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is 4written of me.8 5I delight to do Your will, O my God; 6Your Law is within my heart.”

9I have 7proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will 8not restrain my lips, O Lord, 9You know.10I have 10not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have 11spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

11You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me; 12Your 13lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.12For evils beyond number have 14surrounded me; My 15iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; They are 16more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my 17heart has 18failed me.

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Notes

1. Psalms 40:6 I.e. Blood sacrifice ↩
2. Psalms 40:6 1 Sam 15:22; Ps 51:16; Is 1:11; Jer 6:20; 7:22, 23; Amos 5:22; Mic 6:6-8; Heb 10:5-7 ↩
3. Psalms 40:6 Lit dug; or possibly pierced ↩
4. Psalms 40:7 Or prescribed for ↩
5. Psalms 40:8 John 4:34 ↩
6. Psalms 40:8 Ps 37:31; Jer 31:33; 2 Cor 3:3 ↩
7. Psalms 40:9 Ps 22:22, 25 ↩
8. Psalms 40:9 Ps 119:13 ↩
9. Psalms 40:9 Josh 22:22; Ps 139:4 ↩
10. Psalms 40:10 Acts 20:20, 27 ↩
11. Psalms 40:10 Ps 89:1 ↩
12. Psalms 40:11 Or May...preserve ↩
13. Psalms 40:11 Ps 43:3; 57:3; 61:7; Prov 20:28 ↩
14. Psalms 40:12 Ps 18:5; 116:3 ↩
15. Psalms 40:12 Ps 38:4; 65:3 ↩
16. Psalms 40:12 Ps 69:4 ↩
17. Psalms 40:12 Ps 73:26 ↩
18. Psalms 40:12 Lit forsaken ↩

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