Read
Psalm 40:7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
5Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
Notice
The scroll links the speaker’s coming to words already written, and the next line makes his purpose clear: delight in doing God’s will.
Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.
What do you notice when you read the speaker’s arrival alongside his delight in God’s will?
Write on thisWhere might readiness to do God’s will take shape in one task before you this week?
Write on thisConnect
Where else Scripture says this
12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.
This verse's connections, by chapterThe Bible's strongest chapter linksHover or tap a book to trace it
Hebrews 10:7–9Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”Hebrews quotes the psalm’s declaration of coming and its reference to the scroll, joining them to the purpose of doing God’s will.
Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms …The psalm’s speaker says the scroll contains words about him; Jesus names the psalms among the Scriptures containing words concerning himself.
John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.Both passages connect a speaker with written testimony about himself: the scroll in the psalm and the Scriptures in Jesus’ words.
Luke 24:27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.The psalm mentions words written about its speaker, while Luke describes Jesus explaining what the Scriptures say concerning himself.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,Both connect a person’s action with Scripture, though Paul names Christ’s death for sins, which this psalm verse does not describe.
Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”The shared thread is testimony concerning a person: the scroll concerns the psalm’s speaker, while the prophets testify about Jesus.
1 Peter 1:10–11Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,The link is broad: both concern words about people, with Peter describing the prophets’ words about grace that would reach his readers.
Revelation 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony …The connection is limited to testimony concerning a person: the psalm mentions writing about its speaker, while Revelation names the testimony of Jesus.
John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed …Both concern a person’s relation to God’s purposes, though John’s food and eternal life are absent from this psalm verse.
Hebrews 9:11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of …Coming is the shared action: the psalm’s speaker announces his arrival, while Hebrews describes Christ having come as a high priest.
Jeremiah 36:2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I …A book scroll appears in both passages; Jeremiah is told to write God’s words, while the psalm’s speaker refers to what is written.
Mark 1:2As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:Both refer to something already written concerning a person, with Mark quoting the prophets about a messenger sent to prepare the way.
One step
Something small to carry out of this verse
Encouragement
Hebrews takes up these words to speak of Christ coming to do God’s will. Your response to God rests on what Christ came to do.
Now put it in your words.
Start an entry on Psalm 40:7. Write what it stirs. Psalmlog sets your words beside Scripture and gives you one next step. Your first entry is free, no account needed.
Keep goingPsalm 40 · the whole chapter with its connection mapPsalms · every chapterBuild a reading plan through Psalms
Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).