Psalm 40:6
New International Version
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened — burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

New Living Translation
You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand— you don’t require burnt offerings or sin offerings.

English Standard Version
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Berean Standard Bible
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

King James Bible
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

New King James Version
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.

New American Standard Bible
You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering; You have opened my ears; You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

NASB 1995
Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

NASB 1977
Sacrifice and meal offering Thou hast not desired; My ears Thou hast opened; Burnt offering and sin offering Thou hast not required.

Legacy Standard Bible
Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

Amplified Bible
Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them; You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word]; Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require.

Christian Standard Bible
You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; you open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; You open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

American Standard Version
Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
With sacrifices and with offerings you have not been pleased, but you have pierced the ears for me; burnt peace offerings for sin you have not requested.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require.

Contemporary English Version
Sacrifices and offerings are not what please you; gifts and payment for sin are not what you demand. But you made me willing to listen and obey.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require :

English Revised Version
Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You were not pleased with sacrifices and offerings. You have dug out two ears for me. You did not ask for burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

Good News Translation
You do not want sacrifices and offerings; you do not ask for animals burned whole on the altar or for sacrifices to take away sins. Instead, you have given me ears to hear you,

International Standard Version
You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings— you have prepared my ears to listen— you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast Thou opened; Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required.

Literal Standard Version
Sacrifice and present You have not desired, | But a body You have prepared for me, | Burnt and sin-offering You have not asked.

Majority Standard Bible
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

New American Bible
Sacrifice and offering you do not want; you opened my ears. Holocaust and sin-offering you do not request;

NET Bible
Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

New Revised Standard Version
Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

New Heart English Bible
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. Whole burnt offering and sin offering you did not require.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; my ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

World English Bible
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Young's Literal Translation
Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Waited Patiently for the LORD
5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count. 6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. 7Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:…

Cross References
Hebrews 10:5
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

Hebrews 10:8
In the passage above He says, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them" (although they are offered according to the law).

1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

Psalm 40:7
Then I said, "Here I am, I have come--it is written about me in the scroll:

Psalm 50:8
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Psalm 51:16
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.


Treasury of Scripture

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

Sacrifice

Psalm 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Psalm 51:16
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

mine ears

Exodus 21:6
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Job 33:16
Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

Isaiah 50:4,5
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned…

opened [heb.

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Psalm 40
1. The benefit of confidence in God
6. Obedience is the best sacrifice
11. The sense of David's evils inflames his prayer














(6) Mine ears hast thou opened.--Literally, Ears hast thou dug for me, which can hardly mean anything but "Thou hast given me the sense of hearing." The words are an echo of 1Samuel 15:22. The attentive ear and obedient heart, not formal rites, constitute true worship. Comp. the words so frequent on the lips of Christ, "He that hath ears to hear let him hear." The fact that the plural ears is used instead of the singular, sets aside the idea of a revelation, which is expressed in Isaiah 48:8 by "open the ear" and 1Samuel 9:15 "uncover the ear." Not that the idea is altogether excluded, since the outward ears maybe typical of the inward. The same fact excludes allusion to the symbolic act by which a slave was devoted to perpetual servitude (Exodus 21:6), because then also only one ear was bored. For the well-known variation in the LXX. see New Testament Commentary, Hebrews 10:5. The latest commentator, Gratz, is of opinion that the text is corrupt, and emends (comp. Psalm 51:16) to, "Shouldest thou desire sacrifice and offering I would select the fattest," a most desirable result if his arguments, which are too minute for insertion, were accepted. . . . Verse 6. - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire. Will the right return be by sacrifices and burnt offerings? No, the psalmist answers to himself; it is not these which God really "desires." Samuel had already preached the doctrine, "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1 Samuel 15:22). David goes further. Apart from a spirit of obedience, sacrifice and offering are not desired or required at all; rather, as Isaiah says, they are a weariness and an abomination (Isaiah 1:11, 12). The one thing needed is obedience - a cheerful, willing obedience to all that God reveals as his will. Mine ears hast thou opened. Either, "Thou hast taken away my deafness, and given me ears open to receive and embrace thy Law;" or, perhaps, with special reference to Exodus 21:6 and Deuteronomy 15:17, "Thou hast accepted me as thy voluntary servant, and bored through mine ear, to mark that I am thy servant for ever." Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Of the four kinds of offering mentioned in this verse, the first (זבח) is the ordinary offering of a victim at the altar in sacrifice; the second (מנחה), the meat offering of flour, with oil and frankincense accompanying it; the third (עולה) is the "whole burnt offering," representative of complete self-sacrifice; and the fourth (חטאה), the "sin offering," or "trespass offering," of which the special intention was expiation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Sacrifice
זֶ֤בַח (ze·ḇaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

and offering
וּמִנְחָ֨ה ׀ (ū·min·ḥāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

You did not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

desire,
חָפַ֗צְתָּ (ḥā·p̄aṣ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2654: To incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire

but my ears
אָ֭זְנַיִם (’ā·zə·na·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear

You have opened.
כָּרִ֣יתָ (kā·rî·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3738: To dig, to plot, to bore, open

Burnt offerings
עוֹלָ֥ה (‘ō·w·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

and sin offerings
וַ֝חֲטָאָ֗ה (wa·ḥă·ṭā·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2401: An offence, a sacrifice for, it

You did not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

require.
שָׁאָֽלְתָּ׃ (šā·’ā·lə·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand


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