Psalm 40:8 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 In this text: Psalm 39:9
That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Psalm 39:9
that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
LSV Literal Standard Version
I have delighted to do Your pleasure, my God, || And Your law [is] within my heart.”
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
I delight to do your will, my God; your laws are in my heart.”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
(40-9) I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:9
I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:9
I desired to do thy will, O my God, And thy law in the midst of my heart.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.
FBV Free Bible Version
I am pleased to do your will, my God—your Law guides my mind.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
El hacer tu voluntad, Dios mío, hame agradado; y tu ley está en medio de mis entrañas.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Me deleito en hacer tu voluntad, Dios mío, tu ley la llevo dentro de mí».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Oh mi ʼElohim, hacer tu voluntad me agrada, Y tu Ley está dentro de mi corazón.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Dios mío, estoy feliz de hacer tu voluntad, tu ley guía mis pensamientos”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Dios mío, me deleito en hacer tu voluntad; tu ley está en mi corazón».
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:9
τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ θέλημά σου ὁ Θεός μου ἠβουλήθην, καὶ τὸν νόμον σου ἐν μέσῳ τῆς καρδίας μου.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex In this text: Psalm 40:9
לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת־רְצוֹנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Psalm 39:9
ut facerem voluntatem tuam. Deus meus, volui, et legem tuam in medio cordis mei.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Psalm 39:9
є҆́же сотвори́ти во́лю твою̀, бж҃е мо́й, восхотѣ́хъ, и҆ зако́нъ тво́й посредѣ̀ чре́ва моегѡ̀.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876) In this text: Psalm 39:9
я желаю исполнить волю Твою, Боже мой, и закон Твой у меня в сердце.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
χαίρω, Θεέ μου, να εκτελώ το θέλημά σου· και ο νόμος σου είναι εν τω μέσω της καρδίας μου.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Хоћу чинити вољу Твоју, Боже мој, и закон је Твој мени у срцу.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Hoću činiti volju Tvoju, Bože moj, i zakon je Tvoj meni u srcu.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
أَنْ أَفْعَلَ مَشِيئَتَكَ يَا إِلَهِي سُرِرْتُ، وَشَرِيعَتُكَ فِي وَسَطِ أَحْشَائِي».
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT