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Psalm 40:5-7
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5 O Lord my God, many and many a time you have done great miracles for us, and we are ever in your thoughts. Who else can do such glorious things? No one else can be compared with you. There isn’t time to tell of all your wonderful deeds.

6 It isn’t sacrifices and offerings that you really want from your people. Burnt animals bring no special joy to your heart. But you have accepted the offer of my lifelong service.[a] 7 Then I[b] said, “See, I have come, just as all the prophets foretold.

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  1. Psalm 40:6 But you have accepted the offer of my lifelong service, literally, “My ears you have dug.”
  2. Psalm 40:7 This verse was quoted by Christ as applying to himself. See John 4:34.
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Psalm 40:5-7
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5 Many, Lord my God,
    are the wonders(A) you have done,
    the things you planned for us.
None can compare(B) with you;
    were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
    they would be too many(C) to declare.

6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—(D)
    but my ears you have opened[a]—(E)
    burnt offerings(F) and sin offerings[b] you did not require.
7 Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—
    it is written about me in the scroll.[c](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
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