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Psalms 40:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.” "

Psalms 40:8

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

7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

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Psalms 40:1

"I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry."

Psalms 40:2

"He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand."

Psalms 40:3

"He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD."

Psalms 40:4

"Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies."

Psalms 40:5

"Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted."

Psalms 40:6

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

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