Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageSacrifice and grain offering were not what You desired — but a body You have prepared for me. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSacrifice and grain-offering You have not desired; ears You have hollowed out for me. Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
KJV
King James VersionSacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleSacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
Footnotes
The crux of this verse is *oznayim karita li* (אָזְנַיִם כָּרִיתָ לִּי) — literally 'ears You have dug/hollowed out for me' (MT). The image is striking: YHWH carves the organ of hearing, creating the capacity for obedience — true worship that surpasses animal sacrifice (cf. 1 Sam. 15:22; Isa. 1:11). The Septuagint (LXX) reads instead *soma de katērtisō moi* — 'a body, however, You have prepared for me' — a reading quoted directly in Hebrews 10:5–7 as Messianic prophecy of the Incarnation: the Messiah enters the world as the one perfect sacrifice that renders all others obsolete. The LXX may reflect a variant Hebrew tradition or a midrashic expansion from 'ears' (the part that receives the word) to 'body' (the whole instrument of obedience). FOG follows the MT Hebrew, preserving the obedience motif in its original force; FOG Message follows the LXX/incarnational reading, drawing out the stunning Messianic freight the earliest believers heard in this text.