Psalms 40:6-12

⁶In offerings bloody or bloodless you have no delight, but with open ears you have made me. Burnt-offering and offering for sin are not what you ask.

⁷Then said I, “Here I am, as the roll of the book has enjoined.

⁸My delight, O God, is to do your will, and your law is within my heart.”

⁹Well, O Lord, you know that, with lips unrestrained, your righteousness I told in the great congregation,

¹⁰not hiding it in my heart. I have told of your steadfast help, from the great congregation I hid not your love and your faithfulness.

¹¹So do not restrain, Lord, your pity from us. Your love and your faithfulness — ever may they be our shield.

¹²For evils that cannot be numbered have compassed me round. My transgressions have followed me up — I can bear it no more. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has forsaken me.