Psalm 40:6–12

6 1 aSacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;

My ears You have 2opened;

Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;

In the scroll of the book it is 1written of me.

8 aI delight to do Your will, O my God;

bYour Law is within my heart.”

9 I have aproclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;

Behold, I will bnot restrain my lips,

O Lord, cYou know.

10 I have anot hidden Your righteousness within my heart;

I have bspoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;

I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

11 You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me;

1Your alovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

12 For evils beyond number have asurrounded me;

My biniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;

They are cmore numerous than the hairs of my head,

And my dheart has 1failed me.