40:6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. 1
You make that quite clear to me! 2
You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.
50:10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me,
as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. 3
50:11 I keep track of 4 every bird in the hills,
and the insects 5 of the field are mine.
50:12 Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all it contains belong to me.
6:6 With what should I 6 enter the Lord’s presence?
With what 7 should I bow before the sovereign God? 8
Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings,
with year-old calves?
6:7 Will the Lord accept a thousand rams,
or ten thousand streams of olive oil?
Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion,
my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin? 9
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 10 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 11
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 12 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 13 He does away with 14 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 15 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1 tn Heb “sacrifice and offering you do not desire.” The statement is exaggerated for the sake of emphasis (see Ps 51:16 as well). God is pleased with sacrifices, but his first priority is obedience and loyalty (see 1 Sam 15:22). Sacrifices and offerings apart from genuine allegiance are meaningless (see Isa 1:11-20).
2 tn Heb “ears you hollowed out for me.” The meaning of this odd expression is debated (this is the only collocation of “hollowed out” and “ears” in the OT). It may have been an idiomatic expression referring to making a point clear to a listener. The LXX has “but a body you have prepared for me,” a reading which is followed in Heb 10:5.
3 tn Heb “[the] animals on a thousand hills.” The words “that graze” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The term בְּהֵמוֹה (bÿhemot, “animal”) refers here to cattle (see Ps 104:14).
4 tn Heb “I know.”
5 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word, which occurs only here and in Ps 80:13, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.
6 sn With what should I enter the
7 tn The words “with what” do double duty in the parallelism and are supplied in the second line of the translation for clarification.
8 tn Or “the exalted God.”
9 tn Heb “the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually refers to the whole person; here “the sin of my soul” = “my sin.”
10 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
11 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
12 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
13 tc The majority of
14 tn Or “abolishes.”
15 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.