^16 (A)For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

^(A)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
    as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^(B)to obey is better than sacrifice,
    and to listen than the fat of rams.

^(B)“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 (A)To do righteousness and justice
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.