1:13 But to which of the angels 1 has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? 2
3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering 3 and they have not known my ways.’
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 4 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 5
1 sn The parallel phrases to which of the angels in vv. 5 and 13 show the unity of this series of quotations (vv. 5-14) in revealing the superiority of the Son over angels (v. 4).
2 sn A quotation from Ps 110:1.
3 tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
4 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
5 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
6 sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.
7 sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.