⁶ Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—^(A)
    but my ears you have opened^[a]—^(B)
    burnt offerings^(C) and sin offerings^[b] you did not require.

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;^(B)

⁷ rather, he made himself nothing^(A)
    by taking the very nature^[a] of a servant,^(B)
    being made in human likeness.^(C)

⁸ And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death^(A)—
        even death on a cross!^(B)