Response: HERE ME, LORD. READY DO YOUR-rt WILL.

UP-TO-NOW ME WAIT"over time"
WAIT FOR LORD COME.
PAH! HE-rt HELP'stoop down'
AND PAY-ATTENTION-TO MY SHOUT.
ME INSPIRED SING SOMETHING NEW.
SING TO OUR GOD.Response

GIVE-UP OFFER-UP YOU-rt DON'T-WANT.
MY EARS YOU-rt OPEN-EAR, READY OBEY.
BURN-UP OFFER-UP, SIN OFFER-UP, YOU-rt REQUIRE NOT.
T-H-E-N ME SAY (role play) KNOW-THAT ME COME. Response

WITH TORAH GOD WRITE FOR ME.
DO WHAT YOU-rt REALLY-WANT, ME THRILLED.
YES, YOUR-lf LAW PUT-DOWN-ON-heart DEEP INSIDE-SELF. Response

YOUR-rt JUSTICE, ME PREACH YOUR GREAT CONGREGATION.
KNOW-THAT ME AVOID LECTURE ABOUT THE-rt LORD NOT. Response

Notes: ME - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

WILL - WANT but shaken back and forth to show intensity.

UP-TO-NOW - (2h)[1^], POs down, index fingers travel up the chest on the DS until they end (2h)[1], POs > singer, FOs up.

PAH! - Like SUCCEED but "pah" is mouthed and has the meaning of "at long last". For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - finally.

TORAH - (2h)[S], POs up, twist twice while separating, as if unrolling a scroll. For a QuickTime file of this sign, see ASL Pro. Click "T" under the field labeled "Religious Signs", then scroll down the vocabulary entries to "Torah" and click.

REALLY-WANT - WANT but shaken back and forth to show intensity. (same as WILL above.)

INSIDE-SELF - The FT of [C] are held against the chest and stuff the FT of [O^] into the [C] twice.

CONGREGATION - (2h)[5:], POs > signer, FOs up, move forward to show many people

KNOW-THAT - Starts like KNOW but twists and descends, looking almost like DON'T-KNOW except the hand twists down at the end.

Lyrics (Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10):

Response: Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God. Response

Sacrifice or offering you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, "Behold I come." Response

"In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
to do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!" Response

I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know. Response