16  ^wFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;

you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

^w“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,

as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, ^xto obey is better than sacrifice,

and to listen than the fat of rams.

^c“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body have you prepared for me;

6  in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

7  Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,

as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

3  ^bTo do righteousness and justice

is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.