16  For ^xyou will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;

you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

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

as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

and to listen than the fat of rams.

^q“Sacrifices and offerings ^ryou 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  ⁱTo do righteousness and justice

is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.