¹⁶ Lebanon^(A) is not sufficient for altar fires,
    nor its animals^(B) enough for burnt offerings.

⁶ With what shall I come before^(A) the Lord
    and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?^(B)
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,^(C)
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?^(D)
Shall I offer my firstborn^(E) for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?^(F)

⁹ I have no need of a bull^(A) from your stall
    or of goats^(B) from your pens,^(C)
10 for every animal of the forest^(D) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.^(E)
11 I know every bird^(F) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields^(G) are mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world^(H) is mine, and all that is in it.^(I)

⁶ Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—^(A)
    but my ears you have opened^[a]—^(B)
    burnt offerings^(C) and sin offerings^[b] you did not require.

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;^(B)
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
⁷ Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll^(C)—
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”^[a](D)