Psalm 40:8
Strong's Lexicon
I delight
חָפָ֑צְתִּי (ḥā·p̄ā·ṣə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2654: 1) to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with 1a) (Qal) 1a1) of men 1a1a) to take pleasure in, delight in 1a1b) to delight, desire, be pleased to do 1a2) of God 1a2a) to delight in, have pleasure in 1a2b) to be pleased to do 2) to move, bend down 2a) (Qal) to bend down

to do
לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת־ (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ-)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

Your will,
רְצוֹנְךָ֣ (rə·ṣō·wn·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7522: 1) pleasure, delight, favour, goodwill, acceptance, will 1a) goodwill, favour 1b) acceptance 1c) will, desire, pleasure, self-will

O my God;
אֱלֹהַ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 430: 1) (plural) 1a) rulers, judges 1b) divine ones 1c) angels 1d) gods 2) (plural intensive-singular meaning) 2a) god, goddess 2b) godlike one 2c) works or special possessions of God 2d) the (true) God 2e) God

Your law
וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ (wə·ṯō·w·rā·ṯə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8451: 1) law, direction, instruction 1a) instruction, direction (human or divine) 1a1) body of prophetic teaching 1a2) instruction in Messianic age 1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction 1a4) body of legal directives 1b) law 1b1) law of the burnt offering 1b2) of special law, codes of law 1c) custom, manner 1d) the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law

[is] within
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8432: 1) midst, middle 1a) midst, middle 1b) into, through (after verbs of motion) 1c) among (of a number of persons) 1d) between (of things arranged by twos) 1e) from among (as to take or separate etc)

my heart.”
מֵעָֽי׃ (mê·‘āy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4578: 1) internal organs, inward parts, bowels, intestines, belly 1a) inward parts 1b) digestive organs 1c) organs of procreation, womb 1d) place of emotions or distress or love (fig.) 1e) external belly

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, my God; Your instruction lives within me.”

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

King James Bible
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
I desire to do your will, my God; 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."

English Standard Version
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, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, my God; Your instruction lives within me."

International Standard Version
I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."

NET Bible
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."

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

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
















Cross References
Matthew 3:15
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Hebrews 10:7
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Psalm 40:7
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalm 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
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