Psalm 40:6 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁶ No sacrifice nor offering didst thou at all desire; Mine ears thou bor'd: sin-off 'ring thou and burnt didst not require:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

Common English Bible

⁶ You don’t relish sacrifices or offerings; you don’t require entirely burned offerings or compensation offerings— but you have given me ears!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Psalm 40:6 Cross References

Psalm 139:17

How precious also are thy thoughts, O gracious God, to me! And in their sum how passing great and numberless they be!

Psalm 139:18

If I should count them, than the sand they more in number be: What time soever I awake, I ever am with thee.

Psalm 50:8

I for thy sacrifice no blame will on thee lay, Nor for burnt-off 'rings, which to me thou offer'dst ev'ry day.

Psalm 51:16

For thou desir'st not sacrifice, else would I give it thee; Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering at all delighted be.

Psalm 71:15

Thy justice and salvation my mouth abroad shall show, Ev'n all the day; for I thereof the numbers do not know.