Psalms 40:8

“I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

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

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

Bible commentary

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.


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