Psalms 40:7

Then said I This was his answer when he became aware of God's requirements.

Lo, I come Rather as R.V., Lo, I am come: (LXX. ἰδοὺ ἥκω) the servant's response to his master's summons (Numbers 22:38; 2 Samuel 19:20): like -Behold me," or, -Here I am" (Isaiah 6:9). The object of the coming is not expressed, but is clear from the context.

in the volume of the bookit is written of me Better, in a roll of a book is it prescribed to me: though the rendering of A.V., which is that of the LXX, is possible. The exact phrase -roll of a book" occurs only in Jeremiah 36:2; Jeremiah 36:4; Ezekiel 2:9; -roll" only in Jeremiah 36; Ezekiel 3:1-3; Zechariah 5:1-2; Ezra 6:2 [16]. Cp. however Isaiah 34:4. The context points to Deuteronomy, or at any rate the nucleus of the teaching contained in it, as the book referred to. The absence of the it article seems to emphasise the fact that a writtendocument is referred to (in a book, cp. Hosea 8:12), rather than to single out a particular document as - thebook" par excellence, as the A.V. seems to imply.

[16] -Roll" in Isaiah 8:1 (A.V.) should be tabiet.