Psalms 40:8

Bishop's Bible

Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I delight to do your will, my God,and your instruction is deep within me.”

Hebrew Names Version
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

English Standard Version
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

New Century Version
My God, I want to do what you want. Your teachings are in my heart."

New English Translation
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."

Amplified Bible
"I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."

New American Standard Bible
"I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart."

World English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

Geneva Bible (1587)
I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

Legacy Standard Bible
I desire to do Your will, O my God;Your law is within my inner being."

Berean Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."

Contemporary English Version
'I enjoy pleasing you. Your Law is in my heart.'"

Complete Jewish Bible
so then I said, "Here I am! I'm coming! In the scroll of a book it is written about me.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
My God, I am happy to do whatever you want. I never stop thinking about your teachings."

George Lamsa Translation
I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

Good News Translation
How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

Lexham English Bible
‘I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is deep within me.'"

Literal Translation
I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My inmost soul .

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the begynnynge of the boke it is written of me, that I shulde fulfill thy wil O my God, & that am I contet to do: yee thy lawe is within my hert.

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

Bible in Basic English
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me;

King James Version (1611)
I delight to doe thy will, O my God: yea thy lawe is within my heart.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

English Revised Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that Y schulde do thi wille; my God, Y wolde; and thi lawe in the myddis of myn herte.

Update Bible Version
I delight to do your will, O my God; Yes, your law is inside me.

Webster's Bible Translation
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

New King James Version
I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart."

New Living Translation
I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart."

New Life Bible
I am happy to do Your will, O my God. Your Law is within my heart."

New Revised Standard
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To do thy good-pleasure, O my God, is my delight, And, thy law, is in the midst of mine inward parts:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(39-9) That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Revised Standard Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."

Young's Literal Translation
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."

Contextual Overview

⁶ O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse. ⁷ Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne. ⁸ Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest. ⁹ I haue declared thy righteousnes in a great congregatio: lo I wil not refraine my lippes O God thou knowest [it.] ¹⁰ I haue not hyd thy ryghteousnesse within my heart: my talkyng hath ben of thy trueth and of thy saluation. I haue not concealed thy louyng mercie and trueth: from the great congregation.

Bible Verse Review
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I delight: Psalms 112:1, Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:47, Psalms 119:92, Job 23:12, Jeremiah 15:16, John 4:34, Romans 7:22, Romans 8:29

yea: Psalms 37:30, Psalms 37:31, Proverbs 3:1, Jeremiah 31:33, 2 Corinthians 3:3

within my heart: Heb. in the midst of my bowels

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:20 - the testimony Leviticus 1:3 - his own Numbers 28:11 - in the beginnings Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Deuteronomy 15:16 - General Psalms 1:2 - But his Psalms 19:8 - rejoicing Psalms 84:5 - in whose Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Psalms 119:70 - but I Psalms 119:167 - and I love Proverbs 4:21 - in the Proverbs 21:15 - joy Isaiah 42:21 - he will Isaiah 51:7 - in whose Jeremiah 6:10 - delight Matthew 3:15 - for Matthew 6:10 - Thy will Mark 14:36 - nevertheless Luke 2:49 - my Luke 6:45 - good man Luke 12:50 - and Luke 22:42 - not John 5:30 - because John 6:38 - not John 7:10 - then John 9:31 - and doeth John 14:31 - that the Romans 3:31 - yea Galatians 1:4 - according 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - this Hebrews 1:9 - loved

Cross-References

Genesis 40:10
And in the vine [were] three braunches, and it was as though it budded, & her blossomes shot foorth: and the clusters therof brought foorth rype grapes.

Genesis 40:11
And I had Pharaos cup in my hand, and toke of the grapes and pressed them in Pharaos cuppe, and deliuered Pharaos cuppe into his hande.

Genesis 40:15
For I was priuily by stealth taken away out of the lande of the Hebrewes: and here also haue I done nothyng at all wherfore they shoulde haue put me into this dungeon.

Genesis 40:16
When the chiefe baker sawe that the interpretatio was good, he sayd vnto Ioseph: me thought also in my dreame that I had three whyte wycker baskettes on my head,

Psalms 25:14
The secrete of God is among them that feare hym: and he wyll make knowen vnto them his couenaunt.

Isaiah 8:19
And if they say vnto you, Aske counsayle at the Soothsayers, Witches, Charmers, and Coniurers: [then make them this aunswere,] Is there a people any where that asketh not counsayle at his God? shoulde men runne vnto the dead for the liuing?

Daniel 2:11
For it is a rare matter that the king requireth, neither is there any that can certifie the king therof, except the gods whose dwelling is not with fleshe.

Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heauen that reuealeth secretes, & sheweth the king Nabuchodonozor what is for to come in the latter dayes. Thy dreame and that whiche thou hast seene in thyne head vpon thy bed, is this.

Daniel 2:47
The king aunswered Daniel, & sayde: Of a trueth your God is a God of gods, and the Lorde of kinges, and a reuealer of secretes, seing thou couldest reueale this secrete.

Daniel 4:8
Till at the last Daniel came before me (whose name was Baltassar, according to the name of my God) which hath the spirite of the holy gods in hym, & before him I tolde the dreame, saying:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I delight to do thy will, O my God,.... This he came down from heaven to do, and this he did do, by preaching the Gospel, and working miracles; and above all by obtaining eternal redemption for his people, which he effected by fulfilling the law, becoming a sacrifice, and suffering and dying in their room; all which were the will of God, and grateful to him, and in doing which Christ took the utmost delight and pleasure, John 4:34;

yea, thy law [is] within my heart; either the whole moral law, under which he was, as man, and the surety of his people; and which was written upon his heart, and which he perfectly obeyed; or that particular law, injunction, and command laid upon him by his Father, to offer himself a sacrifice, and lay down his life for men; which he agreed to, had it in his mind, his heart was set upon it, and he cheerfully complied with it, John 10:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I delight to do thy will, O my God - To wit, in obeying the law; in submitting to all the trials appointed to me; in making an atonement for the sins of men. See the notes at Hebrews 10:7. Compare Philippians 2:8; Matthew 26:39.

Yea, thy law is within my heart - Margin, “In the midst of my bowels.” So the Hebrew. The idea is, that the law of God was within him. His obedience was not external, but proceeded from the heart. How true this was of the Redeemer it is not necessary here to say.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 40:8. To do thy will — God willed not the sacrifices under the law, but he willed that a human victim of infinite merit should be offered for the redemption of mankind. That there might be such a victim, a body was prepared for the eternal Logos, and in that body he came to do the will of God; that is, to suffer and die for the sins of the world.

1. Hence we see that the sovereign WILL of God is that Jesus should be incarnated; that he should suffer and die; or, in the apostle's words, taste death for every man; that all should believe on him, and be saved from their sins; for this is the WILL of God, our sanctification.

2. And as the apostle grounds this on the words of the Psalm, we see that it is the WILL of God that that system shall end; for as the essence of it is contained in its sacrifices, and God says he will not have these, and has appointed the Messiah to do his will, i.e., to die for men, hence it necessarily follows, from the psalmist himself, that the introduction of the Messiah into the world is the abolition of the law; and that his sacrifice is that which shall last for ever.