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You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts towards us;
    none can compare with you.
Were I to proclaim and tell of them,
    they would be more than can be counted.

Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
    but you have given me an open ear.[a]
Burnt-offering and sin-offering
    you have not required.
Then I said, ‘Here I am;
    in the scroll of the book it is written of me.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:6 Heb ears you have dug for me
  2. Psalm 40:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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