Psalms 40:8
“I delight to doe thy will, O my God: yea thy lawe is within my heart.”
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Psalms 40:8 Context
6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, mine eares hast thou opened: burnt offering and sinne-offering hast thou not required. 7Then sayd I, Loe, I come: in the volume of the booke it is written of me: 8I delight to doe thy will, O my God: yea thy lawe is within my heart. 9I haue preached righteousnesse in the great congregation: loe, I haue not refrained my lippes, O Lord, thou knowest. 10I haue not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart, I haue declared thy faithfulnesse and thy saluation: I haue not concealed thy louing kindnesse, and thy truth, from the great congregation.
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Other Translations for Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
- King James Version
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
- American Standard Version (1901)
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
- Basic English Bible
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
- Darby Bible
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
- Webster's Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
- World English Bible
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(40:9) I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Commentary for Psalms 40:8
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Wesley's Notes for Psalms 40:8
40:8 I delight - This is eminently true, of Christ, and is here observed as an act of heroic obedience, that he not only resolved to do, but delighted in doing the will of God, or what God had commanded him, which was to die, and that a most shameful, and painful, and cursed death. My heart - I do not only understand it, but receive it with heartiest love, delighting both to meditate of it, and to yield obedience to it.