Psalms 40:8

In 11 translations

BSB

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”Cited in Hebrews 10:5–7

KJV

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.within…: Heb. in the midst of my bowels

WEB

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

ASV

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

LSV

I have delighted to do Your pleasure, my God, || And Your law [is] within my heart.”

YLT

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.

DBY

To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.Elohim

DRC39:9

That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

GNV

I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

JPS40:9

I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'

LXXE39:9

I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC40:9

לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת־רְצוֹנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי׃KJV:Ps.40.8We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

LXX-Br39:9

τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ θέλημά σου ὁ Θεός μου ἠβουλήθην, καὶ τὸν νόμον σου ἐν μέσῳ τῆς καρδίας μου.

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• Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
• Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
• Psalms 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
• Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
• Psalms 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.
• Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Psalms 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
• Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• Romans 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

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