Troubles have surrounded me; there are too many to count. My sins have caught me so that I cannot see a way to escape. I have more sins than hairs on my head, and I have lost my courage.
You do not want sacrifices and offerings. But you have made a hole in my ear to show that my body and life are yours. You do not ask for burnt offerings and sacrifices to take away sins.
Listen to the sound of the singers at the watering holes. There they tell about the victories of the Lord, the victories of the Lord’s warriors in Israel. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates.